Ralph McGill - The South and the southerner, 1960-1963?

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Ralph McGill - The South and the southerner, 1960-1963?

The collection consists of uncorrected proofs of The South and the Southerner, published by Little, Brown, & Co., Boston, 1963.

0.1 linear feet.

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SNAC Resource ID: 7560722

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Little, Brown and Company, 1932, 1966, 1978

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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 ...