In 1953, Ernest Hemingway received a Pulitzer Prize for his monumental work The Old Man and the Sea. That same year, the Pulitzer committee also awarded the prize to thirty-two-year-old Horace Carter, editor of the Tabor City Tribune in North Carolina, who was in the middle of a real-life struggle with the Ku Klux Klan in his small town. Carter, a graduate of the University of North Carolina and a protégé of Frank Porter Graham, wrote fearless editorials that blasted the Klan and its attention-seeking leader, Grand Dragon Thomas Hamilton, and aggravated many town leaders, including his own parents. At one point, Hamilton marched into Carter’s office and confronted him directly. The era comes back to life through rich archival footage and extensive interviews with Carter, who talks about his experiences as a target and his commitment to being a voice of dissent in an otherwise frightened and intimidated town.  RS