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Hodding Carter was the outspoken publisher of the Delta Democrat\u2013Times during the Civil Rights Movement.\xa0 In this episode, Betty Carter remembers the firestorm of threatening phone calls her husband\u2019s editorials generated.

Hodding and Betty Carter moved to Greenville, Mississippi in 1936 and started their own newspaper. Betty Carter discusses the importance of a Free Press and an educated public to Western Democracy.

As a newspaper publisher, Betty Carter maintained her faith in the good intentions of most reporters. But she does recall times when the words of her husband, Hodding Carter, were distorted by the press.

Because Hodding Carter was such an effective and outspoken critic of segregation, he was often the target of public ire in Mississippi.\xa0 Betty Carter describes a time her husband was \u201cburned in effigy\u201d by some angry citizens. \xa0\xa0She also praises the Greenville police department for their unwavering protection of all those involved in the Civil Rights Movement.