Grady Lee Randolph (1915-2005) was the youngest of seven children from Tolbert Ureathus and Rosa Ella Guin Randolph. Born in O'Possum Trot, Alabama, he received his college degree from Auburn University in 1938. Grady Randolph moved to Atlanta, Georgia, in August of 1938 to accept a teaching position at Technological High School (Tech High) in the Atlanta public school system. He remained there until May of 1942 when he began training U.S. Army Air Corps cadets at Maxwell Air Force Base. He returned to Tech High in 1943 and married Jennie Jefferies Howle on December 18 of that year. Randolph also taught at Joseph E. Brown, Sylvan Hills, and Henry W. Grady high schools. In 1960, Randolph began working at WETV (WABE Channel 30) where he created and hosted programs featuring interviews of local, city, and state officials and national and international visitors. The names of the programs were The Sands of Time and This Is Your City. Randolph also taught at Oglethorpe University Night School and briefly at the Evening School at Georgia State University. He received his master's degree from the University of Chicago in 1947. He and his wife Jennie earned law degrees from the Woodrow Wilson School of Law in 1953. In conjunction with his teaching career, Randolph established a lucrative law practice. The Randolphs traveled extensively and conducted personal genealogical research, resulting in the publication of Randolphs of Virginia and a memoir, The Saga of the Darnels (When, Oh Master Will the Harvest Be?) Grady Lee Randolph died October 21, 2005. Jennie Jefferies Howle Randolph died November 17, 2007.
From the description of Grady Lee Randolph diaries, 1931-2001. (Atlanta History Center). WorldCat record id: 663099051
