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...People were living on dirt roads with no water in their houses,” Harrison recalls. “The landlords were the fat cats in town...
...John R. Harrison ’55 won the 1965 Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Writing in recognition of his successful campaign for improved housing in the slums of Gainesville...
...Harrison says that the inhabitants of the slums of Gainesville were living in squalor, while the real estate establishment both profited from them and opposed movements towards reform...
While he was publisher of the Gainesville Sun, a daily newspaper covering life in north and central Florida, Harrison grew interested in a local movement, led by the League of Women Voters in Gainesville, to secure federal urban renewal funds in order to revitalize the poorest sections of the city...
...JOHN R. HARRISON...