Mary Lou Forbes
Journalist, Award Winner
1926 – 2009
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Who was Mary Lou Forbes?
Mary Lou "Ludie" Forbes was an American journalist and commentator. She spent six decades at the Washington Evening Star and The Washington Times, serving as the Times commentary editor until weeks before her death. As Mary Lou Werner she won the annual Pulitzer Prize for Local Reporting for her Evening Star coverage of the 1958 school integration crisis in Virginia in the aftermath of the 1954 Supreme Court of the United States decision in Brown v. Board of Education.
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- Born
- Jun 21, 1926
Alexandria - Also known as
- Miss Mary Lou Werner
- Ludie
- Mary Lou W. Forbes
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Profession
- Died
- Jun 27, 2009
Alexandria
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on July 23, 2013
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