Alan Barth

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American journalist (1906-1979)

United States JournalistsLived 1906 to 1979 · aged 73

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Alan Barth was a 20th-century American journalist and author, specializing in civil liberties, best known for his 30-year stint as an editorial writer at The Washington Post as well as his books, particularly The Loyalty of Free Men (1951).

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Eugene Meyer hired Barth to The Washington Post

March on Washington (August 28, 1963), showing Joseph L. Rauh Jr. (center)-Barth's close friend- with Martin Luther King Jr. (left), Whitney Young, Roy Wilkins, A. Philip Randolph, Walter Reuther, and Sam Weinblatt.

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1952The Hillman Prize for Book Journalism

Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences

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