![]() ![]() Career Blackmon with Bernie Sanders in 2015īlackmon first worked as a reporter for the Arkansas Democrat and he later worked as the managing editor of the Daily Record, both in Little Rock. It was the site of a plantation strike among black laborers, leading to extensive civil rights activity in the mid-twentieth century. ![]() He has said that the small town of 6,000 was evenly split between blacks and whites the county and area, one of plantations, was majority black. Early life and educationīlackmon was born in Stuttgart, Arkansas, and grew up in Leland, Mississippi, in the Mississippi Delta. Blackmon (born 1964) is an American writer and journalist who won a Pulitzer Prize in 2009 for his book, Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II. ![]()
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