The Delta Democrat Times (sometimes spelled Delta Democrat-Times) is a daily newspaper that has been published in Greenville

Greenville, Mississippi

Greenville is a city in Washington County, Mississippi, United States. The population was 48,633 at the 2000 census, but according to the 2009 census bureau estimates, it has since declined to 42,764, making it the eighth-largest city in the state. It is the county seat of Washington...

, Mississippi

Mississippi

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, United States

United States

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 since 1938, when Hodding Carter

Hodding Carter

William Hodding Carter, II was a prominent Southern U.S. progressive journalist and author. Carter was born in Hammond, the largest community in Tangipahoa Parish, in southeastern Louisiana, to William Hodding Carter, I , and the former Irma Dutartre...

 merged his Delta Star, which he started in 1936, with the Democrat Times, which had been in publication since 1868. The paper was home to Carter's editorial columns, which won a Pulitzer Prize

Pulitzer Prize

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 in 1946. His son Hodding Carter III

Hodding Carter III

Hodding Carter, III , is an American journalist and politician best known for his role as Assistant Secretary of State for Public Affairs in the Jimmy Carter administration.-Biography:...

took control of the paper upon his death. The first black editor of the paper, Donald V. Adderton, took over in 2000 and served until 2004.