Mary Alice Thatch, Publisher Who Won Pardon for the Wilmington 10, Dies at 78
At the helm of The Wilmington Journal, she pushed to cover issues affecting the Black community that had been ignored by the mainstream press.
Source: nytimes.com
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At the helm of The Wilmington Journal, she pushed to cover issues affecting the Black community that had been ignored by the mainstream press.
Mary Alice Jervay Thatch, editor and publisher of The Wilmington Journal, North Carolina's oldest and largest Black newspaper, has died at age 78.