MinoritiesPittsburgh Post-Gazette
Paul Block tried to change attitudes on race in the South
Editor’s Note: Exactly a century ago, Paul Block bought his first -- and only – newspaper in the South, the Memphis News-Scimitar, in what seemed to be one of the South’s fastest-growing and most progressive regions. As in other cities, he made the paper better and more successful. But when he sought to properly celebrate a heroic Black man who saved many lives, he ran into trouble fueled by resentment and race hatred.
