Celestine Sibley oral history interview, 1987 Mar. 4.

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Celestine Sibley oral history interview, 1987 Mar. 4.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/38476286

The collection consists of an oral history interview with Celestine Sibley on March 4, 1987 in which she discusses early news reporting in Mobile, Alabama; mother's influence; early political memories; The Pensacola News; the news and the New Deal; the reputation of the Atlanta Constitution; the Constitution's reporting staff during World War II; reporting the federal beat; local news coverage during the war; reporting the city hall beat; mentors; and Ralph McGill.

1 audiotape ; cassette.Transcript (29 p.)

Georgia State University

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SNAC Resource ID: 7403140

Georgia State University

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McGill, Ralph, 1898-1969

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Ralph McGill, as editor and publisher of the Atlanta Constitution, was a leading voince for racial and ethnic tolerance in the South from the 1940s through the 1960s. As an influential daily columnist, he broke the code of silence on the subject of segregation, chastising a generation of demagogues, timid journalists, and ministers who feared change. When the U.S. Supreme Court outlawed segregated schools in 1954 and southern demagogues led defiance of the court, segregationists vilified McGill ...

Kuhn, Clifford M. 1952-....

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Sibley, Celestine.

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Celestine Sibley (1917-), author and columnist, began her career with the ATLANTA CONSTITUTION (1941- ) covering news stories. She became a political reporter and then columnist. From the description of Celestine Sibley papers, ca. 1900-1997. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 173863197 Celestine Sibley, a renowned southern author, journalist, and syndicated columnist, reported for the Atlanta Constitution from 1941 to 1999. Over her long career, she wrote more than 10,000 colum...