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<p>“This biography makes an important contribution to understanding the Civil Rights movement in the South and how the region’s most important newspaper covered it. It’s also fun to read about one of the South’s most important twentieth-century journalists.”—David E. Summer, Ball State University</p> <p>More than a decade before the civil rights movement, newspaperman Ralph McGill broke the social code of silence that kept white southerners from publicly debating any change in the system of racial segregation. From his editorial perch at the Atlanta Constitution, McGill dared to question the South’s voting laws and its so-called “separate but equal” school system.</p> <p>In the North, McGill was hailed as the conscience of the South, but on his home turf he was branded a traitor and a Communist—“Red Ralph,” some called him. The Ku Klux Klan picketed his newspaper offices. Reactionaries sent him hate mail, threatened him by telephone, tossed garbage on his lawn, and used his mailbox for target practice. But in his thirty-one years as an editor and publisher, McGill’s columns were eagerly read, even by those who hated him. And those who admired him, including young journalists, began

Author

Teel, Leonard Ray.

Publisher

Knoxville, [Tenn.]: University of Tennessee Press

Published

2001

Language

EN

ISBN

9781572331358

Subjects

Computer Science, Literary Fiction, Memoir