Hoke Marion Norris (October 8, 1913 – July 8, 1977) was a Chicago journalist whose reporting during the Civil Rights Movement had a significant impact on popular opinion in Chicago.
Born in 1913 in Holly Springs, North Carolina, Norris studied journalism at Wake Forest College.
After studying at Harvard University on a Nieman Fellowship in 1950, Norris became a reporter and editor at the Chicago Sun-Times.
Although he was literary editor, he took on a news reporter role during the Civil Rights Movement, and sent dispatches from the South.
Norris's literary career included the novels All the Kingdoms of the Earth (1956) and It's Not Far but I Don't Know the Way (1968), and the collection of essays We Dissent (1962).