Women’s History Month: Day 20 & Carol Sutton
Day 20 of Women’s History Month features Carol Sutton. She reformed her women’s page to make it more relevant in the 1960’s and was later promoted to managing editor of the Louisville Courier-Journal. She was the first woman in such a management position at a newspaper that her family did not own. During her tenure, the newspaper won Sigma Delta Chi and Roy Howard awards for public service for coverage of school desegregation in Louisville. She was a winner of a Penney-Missouri Award. She was one of several women named Time magazine’s people of the year in 1975. She remained at the newspaper after she was demoted. In 1985 she died of cancer at a young age.
Luckily, she took part in a Louisville oral history project. Here is a link to some of the audio from the interview.
Here is a link to a paper that I wrote about Carol.
