Manuscripts Department
           Library of the University of North Carolina
                         at Chapel Hill

                 SOUTHERN HISTORICAL COLLECTION

                              #4565
                     W. HORACE CARTER PAPERS
                        Initial Inventory

Abstract:      W. Horace Carter of Tabor City, N.C., Pulitzer
           Prize-winning journalist, was editor of the Tabor City
           Tribune and author of books and articles on
           fresh-water fishing and deer and duck hunting.
               Office files containing correspondence, mostly
           with editors of outdoor recreation magazines; notes;
           drafts of writings; and other materials chiefly
           relating to W. Horace Carter's work as a free-lance
           writer specializing in works about fresh-water fishing
           and deer and duck hunting.  Also included is a small
           number of items relating to awards Carter received
           during his career in journalism, including his time as
           editor of the Tabor City Tribune, and one photograph
           album containing pictures of Carter and his family.

Online Catalog Terms:
   Carter family.
   Carter, W. Horace, 1921-
   Editors--North Carolina.
   Fishing--North Carolina.
   Hunting--North Carolina.
   Journalists--North Carolina.
   Outdoor recreation--North Carolina.
   Tabor City (N.C.)--Social life and customs.
   Tabor City Tribune (Newspaper : N.C.).

Size:          About 2200 items (9.0 linear feet).

Provenance:    Received from W. Horace Carter of Hawthorne, Fla.,
               in September 1990.

Access:        Unprocessed.  May be used with staff assistance.

Processing Note:   Processing deferred due to expected additions.

Copyright: Retained by the authors of items in these papers, or 
           their descendants, as stipulated by United States
           copyright law.

Table of Contents:
   Biographical Note
   Description

                        BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE

   W. Horace Carter of Tabor City, Columbus County, N.C., and
Hawthorne, Alachua County, Fla., was born in 1921.  He was the
first male graduate of Endy High School and went on to receive an
A.B. degree in journalism from the University of North Carolina
in 1944.  In 1946, Carter took some of his G.I. Bill money from
World War II service and, in partnership with others, opened the
Tabor City Tribune, a weekly newspaper.  Around 1950, he helped
form the Atlantic Publishing Company, which published five small
newspapers in North and South Carolina.

   Carter received many honors during his journalistic career,
two of the most prestigious resulting from his courageous battle
against the Ku Klux Klan in the early 1950s.  In 1953, as a
result of his hard-hitting anti-Klan editorials and gutsy
front-page coverage of Klan activities, the Tabor City Tribune
received the first Pulitzer Prize awarded to a weekly newspaper. 
In addition, also in 1953, Carter's anti-Klan campaign led to his
being named by the Jaycees as one of the top ten young men in
America.

   In later years, Carter has written several books, among them: 
Land  That I Love (1980); Wild and Wonderful Santee Cooper
Country (1981); "Buddy," Ernie Pyle, World War II's Most Beloved
Typewriter Soldier (1982); Return to Cross Creek (1985); and Damn
the Alligators (1989).  He is also widely published as a
free-lance writer specializing in works about fresh-water fishing
and deer and duck hunting.

                           DESCRIPTION

   Office files containing correspondence, mostly with editors of
outdoor recreation magazines; notes; drafts of writings; and
other materials chiefly relating to Carter's work as a free-lance
writer specializing in works about fresh-water fishing and deer
and duck hunting.  Also included is a small number of items
relating to awards Carter has received and photocopies of the
images in a photograph album containing pictures of Carter and
his family.

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