Deaths elsewhere

Last update: June 30, 2009 - 8:42 PM

Mary Lou Forbes, 83, a journalist who won a Pulitzer Prize in 1959 at the Washington Star for her coverage of Virginia school desegregation and became founding editor of the Washington Times' commentary page, died last Saturday in Alexandria, Va., of breast cancer. Forbes began her career as a 17-year-old copy girl at the Star. Rapidly promoted to reporter, she made her greatest impact during the 1950s reporting on "massive resistance" in Virginia to race-mixing in public schools, an effort pushed by the political machine of then-U.S. Sen. Harry F. Byrd Sr. and which worked to shut down public schools rather than integrate. WASHINGTON POST

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