Hoke Norris

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Hoke Norris
Born
Hoke Marion Norris

(1913-10-08)October 8, 1913
DiedJuly 8, 1977(1977-07-08) (aged 63)
NationalityAmerican
Occupation(s)Journalist and author
Spouse
Edna Dees
(m. 1941)
ChildrenMarion Dees Norris

Hoke Marion Norris (October 8, 1913 – July 8, 1977) was a

Civil Rights Movement
had a significant impact on popular opinion in Chicago.

Born in 1913 in

Army Air Force
in 1942. When his tour of duty ended, he returned to AP.

After studying at Harvard University on a Nieman Fellowship in 1950, Norris became a reporter and editor at the Chicago Sun-Times. Although he was literary editor, he took on a news reporter role during the Civil Rights Movement, and sent dispatches from the South. During the 1970s, he taught and was an administrator at the University of Chicago and was on the editorial board of the Chicago Daily News.

Norris's literary career included the novels All the Kingdoms of the Earth (1956) and It's Not Far but I Don't Know the Way (1968), and the collection of essays We Dissent (1962).

Hoke Norris died in 1977.[1]

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