Reminiscences of Fred Powledge: oral history, 1987.

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Reminiscences of Fred Powledge: oral history, 1987.

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Editor, "Daily Tar Heel," University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill; editor, "Lower South Carolina Sentinel," 1954; writer/ editor, Associated Press, New Haven, Connecticut; reporter on civil rights movement, "Atlanta Journal," 1960-1963: management restrictions on coverage of civil rights movement, activities in Atlanta, recollections of Ku Klux Klan, riot over James Meredith's enrollment at University of Mississippi, coverage of Georgia state legislature, summer of 1962 in Albany, Georgia, displays of personal courage, importance of church in Black community, death threats; reporter, "New York Times": coverage of civil rights movement in the North, March on Washington, War on Poverty, youth political organizations, Kennedy assassination, Northern riots, comparisons of Northern and Southern racial attitudes, interracial relationships, new student left; importance of journalists to civil rights movement.

Transcript:a94 leaves.

Columbia University in the City of New York, Columbia University Libraries

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Journalist. From the description of Reminiscences of Fred Powledge: oral history, 1987. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 122565769 Fred Powledge was a freelance journalist and writer who wrote and contributed to numerous books, articles, reports, and internet web sites. During his career, Powledge wrote on a variety of topics, including adoption, water quality and pollution, the food industry, race relations, environmentalism, circuses, and ...