Mary Lou Forbes
(1926-2009)
American journalist
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Mary Lou "Ludie" Forbes (June 21, 1926 – June 27, 2009) 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 (Edition Time) 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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21 June 1926 Alexandria, Virginia, USA
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27 June 2009 (aged 83) Alexandria, Virginia, USA
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| Zodiac | Gemini |
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