February 3, 1969: Ralph McGill Dies
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Suggested Readings
Barbara Barksdale Clowse, Ralph McGill: A Biography (Macon, Ga.: Mercer University Press, 1998).
Calvin M. Logue, ed., Ralph McGill: Editor and Publisher (Durham, N.C.: Moore, 1969).
Harold Martin, Ralph McGill, Reporter (Boston: Little, Brown, 1973).
Ralph McGill, The South and the Southerner (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1992).
Leonard Ray Teel, Ralph Emerson McGill: Voice of the Southern Conscience (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2001).
“Ralph McGill (1898-1969).” New Georgia Encyclopedia. http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/nge/Article.jsp?id=h-2769&sug=y
Ralph McGill papers, 1853-1971 Emory University Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library Permanent link: http://testpid.library.emory.edu/ark:/25593/80drj
Georgia Writers Hall of Fame: http://www.libs.uga.edu/gawriters/mcgill.html
Ralph McGill Interviews with W.E.B DuBois: http://www.theatlantic.com/past/docs/unbound/flashbks/black/mcgillbh.htm
International Civil Rights Hall of Fame: http://www.nps.gov/features/malu/feat0002/wof/Ralph_McGill.htm
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Image Credits
A real dirt farmer, Eugene Talmadge Courtesy of Georgia Archives, geo126-83
Atlanta Constitution Building Image courtesy of the Ralph McGill Papers, Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library, Emory University
KKK cross burning, Burke County bur141 Courtesy of Georgia Archives, bur141
Caption to letter regarding desegregation from an Atlanta Constitution Reader Image courtesy of the Ralph McGill Papers, Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library, Emory University
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Clark Howell Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, LC-USZ62-78445
Clark Howell Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, LC-DIG-ggbain-36777
Eugene Talmadge addressing crowd Courtesy of Georgia Archives, geo128-83
Eugene Talmadge giving a speech in Albany, Dougherty County Courtesy of Georgia Archives, dgh191d
Eugene Talmadge shaking hands at a political rally in Elberton, Elbert County Courtesy of Georgia Archives, elb013
Governor Eugene Talmadge swearing in Atlanta, Fulton County Courtesy of Georgia Archives, ful0740-83
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Howell, 1919 Image Courtesy of the Kenan Research Center at the Atlanta History Center, VIS1701002001
Letter regarding desegregation from an Atlanta Constitution reader, August 1958 Image courtesy of the Ralph McGill Papers, Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library, Emory University
McGill (center) and others, pre-1920 Image courtesy of the Ralph McGill Papers, Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library, Emory University
“Ralph McGill: Oh, Moon, We Rise to You!” Atlanta Constitution, October 12, 1958 Image courtesy of the Ralph McGill Papers, Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library, Emory University
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