Grace Lundy Tackett's correspondence and drafts related to the book, The best of Ralph McGill, 1980.

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Grace Lundy Tackett's correspondence and drafts related to the book, The best of Ralph McGill, 1980.

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This collection contains correspondence from Michael D. Strickland to Grace Lundy, as well as drafts of introductory material for Strickland's book, The best of Ralph McGill. Lundy wrote the foreword to this work, and recalled her days as McGill's secretary. Ralph McGill was a journalist and editor of The Atlanta constitution newspaper whose columns advocating racial and ethnic tolerance in the South won him a Pulitzer prize in 1959. These papers were laid in Lundy's copy of the book, which was given to DeGolyer Library by her husband.

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Southern Methodist University DeGolyer Library

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Southern Methodist University DeGolyer Library

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Tackett, Grace Lundy.

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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 ...

Strickland, Michael R.

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