Hodding Carter III Cause of Death

Hodding Carter III, a Mississippi journalist and civil rights activist died on May 11, 2023, at the age of 88, at a retirement home in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, from a series of strokes.

Catherine Carter Sullivan, his daughter, confirmed his death on Thursday, May 11 2023,  in Chapel Hill, North Carolina.

Carter was the editor and publisher of his family’s newspaper, the Delta Democrat-Times, in Greenville, Mississippi, before moving to Washington in 1977.

Carter was a co-chair of the Loyalist Democrats, a racially diverse group that defeated Mississippi’s governor, John Bell Williams, in a credentials fight at the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago.

Hodding Carter III served as a spokesman for the US State Department during the Iran hostage crisis and later won awards for his televised documentaries.

He also wrote opinion pieces for the Wall Street Journal and other publications. He was twice a member of the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press’s steering committee.

In 1998, he was appointed president of the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation in Miami, Florida.

In 2006, he left the foundation to teach leadership and public policy at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He was the author of two books, “The Reagan Years” and “The South Strikes Back.”