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Louis Isaac Jaffe (1888–1950) was editorial page editor of the Norfolk Virginian-Pilot from 1919 to 1950. He won the Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Writing in 1929 for An Unspeakable Act of Savagery which condemned lynching.Jaffe spent his early life in Durham NC where his parents Lithuanian immigrants were shopkeepers. He attended Durham High School and Trinity College the forerunner of Duke University. After U.S.