Oklahoma's Atticus Quotes

“It is hard to overstate the importance of the local newspaper, especially in 1953. Just as the media that would eventually take its place—television and the internet—the newspaper did more than just provide people information; it also actively directed the reader’s sense of reality: This is what happened, this is who was involved, and, most important, this is what it means for you.”
― Hunter Howe Cates, Oklahoma's Atticus: An Innocent Man and the Lawyer Who Fought for Him

“Nab Negro for Attacking Girl in an Elevator.” In eight words a single newspaper established final say over truth and justice, law and order, life and death. The mob acted of its own volition, but the trusted voice of the daily paper incited the violence. No retraction could clear away the spilled blood. No editorial could change the fact that black America’s lone refuge, the Greenwood District, was now ash and dust.”
― Hunter Howe Cates, Oklahoma's Atticus: An Innocent Man and the Lawyer Who Fought for Him