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    Peace Conference of 1861 Corwin Amendment Battle of Fort Sumter Elijah Parish Lovejoy (November 9, 1802 – November 7, 1837) was an American Presbyterian...
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    The Elijah Parish Lovejoy Award is presented annually by Colby College to a member of the newspaper profession who has contributed to the country's journalistic...
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  • The Elijah Parish Lovejoy Prize for Courage in Journalism was an award presented annually by the International Conference of Weekly Newspaper Editors...
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    responsible for restoring the Alton, Illinois, grave of free-press martyr Elijah Parish Lovejoy, who was shot and killed by a pro-slavery mob in 1837. Dimmock was...
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    Bob Woodward (category Elijah Parish Lovejoy Award recipients)
    Presidency (2002). In 2012, Colby College presented Woodward with the Elijah Parish Lovejoy Award for courageous journalism as well as an honorary doctorate...
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    activist. While working on research for his dissertation about Elijah Parish Lovejoy, an editor and abolitionist, he lived and worked in Alton, Illinois...
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  • involved in the debate over liquor laws. His siblings included Elijah Parish Lovejoy and Owen Lovejoy (1811–1864). He wrote Memoir of Charles T. Torrey about...
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    were outraged by the murder of white abolitionist and journalist Elijah Parish Lovejoy by a proslavery mob in Alton, Illinois on 7 November 1837. Six months...
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    occupying it against the claims of the new owner. In November 1837, Elijah Parish Lovejoy was murdered in Alton, Illinois for printing an abolitionist newspaper...
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    Thomas M. Storke (category Elijah Parish Lovejoy Award recipients)
    Pulitzer Prize in Journalism, for Editorial Writing in 1962, the Elijah Parish Lovejoy Award, and an honorary Doctor of Laws degree from Colby College...
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    Katharine Graham (category Elijah Parish Lovejoy Award recipients)
    Truman Capote's Black and White Ball. In 1973, Graham received the Elijah Parish Lovejoy Award as well as an honorary Doctor of Laws degree from Colby College...
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  • Roger Sherman Elkanah Watson Elijah Parish Lovejoy Daniel Boone Peter Francisco John Gano Nathanael Greene Nathan Hale Elijah Isaacs John Paul Jones Marquis...
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    Paul Salopek (category Elijah Parish Lovejoy Award recipients)
    Paul Salopek (born February 9, 1962, in Barstow, California) is an American journalist and writer from the United States. He is a two-time Pulitzer Prize...
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  • John Hay Whitney (category Elijah Parish Lovejoy Award recipients)
    John Hay Whitney (August 17, 1904 – February 8, 1982) was an American venture capitalist, sportsman, philanthropist, newspaper publisher, film producer...
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  • 6, 2013. "Elijah Parish Lovejoy". The Untold Story: Activism & Social Justice at Colby. Retrieved December 7, 2012. "Elijah Parish Lovejoy". Altonweb...
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    Before 1900 Francis McIntosh (1836) Elijah Parish Lovejoy (1837) Josefa Segovia (1851) Pancho Daniel (1858) Joshua Boyd (1863) Henry Plummer (1864) Bill...
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  • Daniel Pearl (category Elijah Parish Lovejoy Award recipients)
    building", Mack said. In 2002, Pearl posthumously received the Elijah Parish Lovejoy Award from Colby College and in 2007, the Lyndon Baines Johnson...
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    the 7 November 1837 mob murder of abolitionist newspaper editor Elijah Parish Lovejoy, which was covered in newspapers nationwide, causing a rise in membership...
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    Paul Simon (politician) (category Elijah Parish Lovejoy Award recipients)
    autobiography, and even a well-received book on martyred abolitionist publisher Elijah Lovejoy. His final book, Our Culture of Pandering, was published in October...
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    Don Bolles (category Elijah Parish Lovejoy Award recipients)
    Donald Fifield Bolles (July 10, 1928 – June 13, 1976) was an American investigative reporter for The Arizona Republic newspaper who was known for his coverage...
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    James Reston (category Elijah Parish Lovejoy Award recipients)
    James "Scotty" Barrett Reston (November 3, 1909 – December 6, 1995) was an American journalist whose career spanned the mid-1930s to the early 1990s. He...
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    German rabbi Elijah Parish Lovejoy (1802–1837), American religious figure Elijah 'Tap Tap' Makhatini (born 1942), South African boxer Elijah Manangoi (born...
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    mob in St. Louis in 1836. Lincoln also referenced the death of Elijah Parish Lovejoy, a newspaper editor and abolitionist, who was murdered three months...
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  • Arthur Hays Sulzberger (category Elijah Parish Lovejoy Award recipients)
    contributions to the City of New York." In 1956, Sulzberger received the Elijah Parish Lovejoy Award as well as an honorary Doctor of Laws degree from Colby College...
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    older brother Elijah Parish Lovejoy had moved in 1836 from St. Louis, because of hostility to his anti-slavery activities. The older Lovejoy was by then...
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  • Mary McGrory (category Elijah Parish Lovejoy Award recipients)
    her career at The Washington Post. In 1985, McGrory received the Elijah Parish Lovejoy Award as well as an honorary Doctor of Laws degree from Colby College...
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  • Before 1900 Francis McIntosh (1836) Elijah Parish Lovejoy (1837) Josefa Segovia (1851) Pancho Daniel (1858) Joshua Boyd (1863) Henry Plummer (1864) Bill...
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  • politician Curtis Lovejoy (1957–2021), American swimmer, Paralympic gold medalist Deirdre Lovejoy (born 1962), American actress Elijah Parish Lovejoy (1802–1837)...
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  • Bernard Kilgore (category Elijah Parish Lovejoy Award recipients)
    and head of the Dow Jones company. In 1961 Kilgore received the Elijah Parish Lovejoy Award as well as an honorary Doctor of Laws degree from Colby College...
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    James Russell Wiggins (category Elijah Parish Lovejoy Award recipients)
    racial identification in news articles. In 1954 Wiggins Received the Elijah Parish Lovejoy Award as well as an honorary Doctor of Laws degree from Colby College...
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