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050 00 $aPN4874.M37$bT44 2001
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100 1 $aTeel, Leonard Ray.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n81024285
245 10 $aRalph Emerson McGill :$bvoice of the southern conscience /$cLeonard Ray Teel.
250 $a1st ed.
260 $aKnoxville :$bUniversity of Tennessee Press,$c[2001], ©2001.
300 $axx, 559 pages ;$c24 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 529-548) and index.
520 1 $a"More than a decade before the civil rights movement, newspaperman Ralph McGill broke the social code of silence that kept white southerners from publicly debating any change in the system of racial segregation. From his editorial perch at the Atlanta Constitution, McGill dared to question the South's voting laws and its so-called "separate but equal" school system.".
520 8 $a"In the North, McGill was hailed as the conscience of the South, but on his home turf he was branded a traitor and a Communist - "Red Ralph," some called him. The Ku Klux Klan picketed his newspaper offices. Reactionaries sent him hate mail, threatened him by telephone, tossed garbage on his lawn, and used his mailbox for target practice. But in his thirty-one years as an editor and publisher, McGill's columns were eagerly read, even by those who hated him.
520 8 $aAnd those who admired him, including young journalists, began confronting a subject that for generations of white southerners remained a taboo." "For this biography, Leonard Teel has drawn on many archival sources not previously used, including files of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, as well as public and private archives of McGill's papers and correspondence, interviews with his colleagues and family, and the vast storehouse of his opinion columns in both Nashville and Atlanta."--BOOK JACKET.
600 10 $aMcGill, Ralph,$d1898-1969.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n82044755
650 0 $aJournalists$zUnited States$vBiography.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008106101
651 0 $aSouthern States$xRace relations.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008111476
650 0 $aAfrican Americans$xCivil rights$zSouthern States.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2007100330
852 00 $boff,jou$hPN4874.M37$iT44 2001