W. Horace Carter

W. Horace Carter, founder and former editor-publisher of The Tabor City Tribune in Tabor City, N.C., won a Pulitzer Prize in 1953 for his courageous coverage of Ku Klux Klan activities in Columbus County, North Carolina, and Horry County, South Carolina, in the early 1950s. Carter's editorials led to the conviction of 62 klansmen.

A native of Stanly County, North Carolina, Carter earned a bachelor's degree from the University of North Carolina School of Journalism in 1939 and founded The Tabor City Tribune in 1946. The late Charles Kuralt of CBS News called Carter a "fighting editor." Carter is also past president of the Southeastern Outdoor Press Association.

Carter was awarded the honorary degree Doctor of Humane Letters from Coastal Carolina University during the May 2002 commencement ceremony.