Louis Isaac Jaffe

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Louis Isaac Jaffe (February 22, 1888 – March 12, 1950) was a Lithuanian-American Pulitzer prize-winning journalist and former director of the American Red Cross News Service, in Paris, for the European bureau. He served for over three decades, and serving as the editorial page editor of the newspaper, Virginian-Pilot of Norfolk, Virginia (1919– 1950).
During his 31-year career with the Pilot, Jaffe became a progressive force in state and local politics and won national recognition for his campaign defending civil rights, attacking the Ku Klux Klan and urging state action against lynching. Jaffe was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Writing in 1929 for "An Unspeakable Act of Savagery," condemning the 1928 lynching of Robert Powell, a 24-year-old black man, in Houston, Texas.

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