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Hoke Norris

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According to Wikipedia, Hoke Marion Norris was a Chicago journalist whose reporting during the Civil Rights Movement had a significant impact on popular opinion in Chicago. Born in 1913 in Holly Springs, North Carolina, Norris studied journalism at Wake Forest College. He married Edna Dees Norris of North Carolina and had one child, a daughter, Marion Dees Norris. His first journalism job was writing for the Daily Advance in Elizabeth City, NC, which he left to write for the Raleigh News and Observer. He then worked for the Associated Press before joining the Army Air Force in 1942. When his tour of duty ended, he returned to AP.

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