Jack Bass, NF ’66, journalist, author, and historian who reported on race and politics in the American South, dies at 91

Jack Bass, a leading newspaper reporter, academic, and author who covered the racial and political history of South Carolina and the American South, died from complications of Alzheimer’s disease on April 23, 2026, in Durham, N.C. He was 91. Bass was a widely respected chronicler of South Carolina politics and the Civil Rights Movement, first as a reporter and then as an author or co-author of…