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  New Georgia Encyclopedia: Ralph McGill (1898-1969)
Ralph Emerson McGill was born on February 5, 1898, in the remote farming community of Igou's Ferry, about twenty miles north of Chattanooga, Tennessee.
McGill sided with the law of the land, which meant a radical reorientation of a society that for generations nurtured legal segregation from the rest of the nation.
McGill, as a loyal Democrat and a former marine, was unwilling to criticize America's war in Vietnam.
www.georgiaencyclopedia.org /nge/Article.jsp?id=h-2769   (1452 words)

  
 Ralph McGill and His Times - Moviefone
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JSTOR: Dawn's Early Light: Ralph McGill and the Segregated South Ralph Emerson McGill, publisher and editor of the Atlanta Constitution from 1938 to 1969,...
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 Ralph Emerson McGill Biography | Encyclopedia of World Biography
Ralph McGill was born on February 3, 1898, on a farm in eastern Tennessee.
McGill saw education and economic growth as the key to the South's progressive future but despaired that these forces of change could be generated from the inside.
McGill often breathed contempt for the Old South myths and remarked that the Confederate flag, worn on the fl jackets of long-haired motorcyclists, had become a symbol of the social outcast.
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 The Harvard Crimson :: News :: Ralph McGill
During the fifties, McGill was definitely a "law of the land" moderate: he stressed not the moral justness of the Supreme Court decision, but the necessity for accepting the Court's authority and eschewing any form of violence.
McGill is keenly antagonistic to Southern "liberals" who have continued to compromise their integrity on the race issue.
McGill is confident that the coalition of fl voters and moderate middle class whites, which has served for 15 years to keep Atlanta's mayor's office out of the hands of the rednecks, will survive and eventually broaden its base into the countryside.
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 Tennessee Newspaper Hall of Fame
Ralph McGill made his name and fame as the editor and publisher of the Atlanta Constitution and championed civil rights in the South at a time when others considered it traitorous if not downright unhealthy.
McGill was born in Soddy and frequently referred to himself as "an old Soddy-Daisy boy." He went to Vanderbilt University, played football, tried his hand at writing poetry and joined the college newspaper staff.
One key to McGill's selection, the Pulitzer judges wrote, was a column of his on a church bombing in Atlanta and the school bombing in Clinton, Tenn., called "A Church, A School.
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Ralph Emerson McGill (February 5, 1898- February 3, 1969) was best known as the anti-segregationist editor and publisher of the Atlanta Constitution newspaper.
McGill was born near Soddy-Daisy, Tennessee and attended school at the McCallie School in Chattanooga, Tennessee.
In the late 1950s, McGill became a syndicated columnist, reaching a national audience.
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 Finding Aid : Ralph McGill papers, 1853-1971 : Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Books Library
Ralph McGill (February 5, 1898 - February 3, 1969), journalist, editor, and publisher, was born Ralph Waldo Emerson McGill in the farming community of Iqouls Ferry, ten miles from the coal-mining town of Soddy, in Hamilton County, Tennessee.
Often called the "Conscience of the South," McGill took a moderate position on racial issues and appealed for racial cooperation and obedience to the law of the land after the Supreme Court ruling in 1954, thereby becoming identified with the "liberal" element in the south and gaining national acclaim.
McGill, his first wife, and their two daughters are buried in Westview Cemetery in Atlanta.
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 Georgia Writers Hall of Fame
Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist Ralph McGill combined an omnivorous literary intellect, a keen storyteller's sense, and a crack reporter's speed to become Georgia's most influential journalist of the twentieth century.
In 1960, McGill was named publisher of the Constitution, a title that had less to do with McGill's invovlement in the business of the paper and more to do with protecting him from the paper's mandatory retirement age so he could continue to write his daily columns.
Ralph McGill died of heart failure in Atlanta on February 3, 1969.
www.libs.uga.edu /gawriters/mcgill.html   (998 words)

  
 AJR - A True Legend in American Journalism
McGill took such hostility in stride, as though he considered it the price for turning out columns that thundered with righteousness and, often, with his own personal brand of invective.
McGill was such a heavy drinker he frequently disgraced himself and others in public, according to Teel, who describes an incident in which McGill got drunk and abusive while he and Carl Ackerman, then dean of the Columbia University School of Journalism, were representing the American Society of Newspaper Editors in China in the 1940s.
McGill's FBI file was especially thick, in part because he had an exceptionally close relationship with Director J. Edgar Hoover.
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 McGill_Ralph_ga   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
Ralph McGill was born in the year of 1898 and died in 1969.
McGill once was expelled from Vanderbilt University for expressing those thoughts.
Ralph McGill was a very influential person to people all over the world.
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 Ralph McGill   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
alph Emerson McGill, newspaperman, was born in Tennessee in 1898 and studied at Vanderbilt University between 1917 and 1922, with time out for service in the Marines during 1918 and 1919.
Upon graduation, he joined the staff of the Banner in Nashville where he worked for a half-dozen years before he moved to Atlanta and its Constitution.
His adopted city of Atlanta honored him by changing the name of a street to Ralph McGill Boulevard, after it had carried for decades the name of the first imperial Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan.
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 Presidential Papers, Doc#1078 Personal and confidential To Ralph Emerson McGill, 26 February 1959. In The Papers of ...
Dear Ralph: I was truly interested in your letter of the twenty-third.
McGill told Eisenhower that he need not be "too concerned about the confusing, often contradictory, actions of the senators from at least four states; namely Georgia, Mississippi, Alabama and South Carolina.
McGill had written that Talmadge had become, to Georgians, "THE Senator." McGill described Talmadge as "a very able, shrewd and hard-working man," who was "likable and has an unusually attractive personality when he wishes to make it so.
www.eisenhowermemorial.org /presidential-papers/second-term/documents/1078.cfm   (1164 words)

  
 Ralph Emerson McGill: Voice of the Southern Conscience. | Information > Publishing Industries (except Internet) from ...
RALPH EMERSON MCGILL: VOICE OF THE SOUTHERN CONSCIENCE By Leonard Ray Teel The University of Tennessee Press 559 pp.
Ralph McGill (1898-1969) was the most celebrated of the band of southern journalists who sought to ease their region out of the old era of racial segregation and disfranchisement.
Leonard Ray Teel, a professor at Georgia State, makes clear that McGill was a man of complexity and contradictions, and fully deserving of the full biography Teel has written.
www.allbusiness.com /information/publishing-industries/129320-1.html   (714 words)

  
 Finding Aid : Ralph McGill papers, 1853-1971 [Ralph McGill materials collected by the Manuscript, Archives, and Rare ...
David Estes, who was then head of the library, solicited donations of materials on Ralph McGill by those who knew him.
Bergman, Bernard A.: Correspondence: Ralph McGill to Bergman, November 9, 1965
Kirkpatrick, Dow: Correspondence: Ralph McGill to Dow Kirkpatrick, September 5, 1963, and photocopy of church bulletin with Ralph McGill as guest speaker, November 17, 1963
marbl.library.emory.edu /FindingAids/content.php?el=c02&id=mcgill252_10010461   (479 words)

  
 Knight Foundation president Hodding Carter to deliver Grady College’s 25th Ralph McGill Lecture Oct. 14
The press in America is at a crossroads," according to award-winning journalist and commentator Hodding Carter III, who will deliver the 25th Ralph McGill Lecture at the University of Georgia.
Sponsored by UGA’s Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication, the McGill Lecture series commemorates the life of the late Ralph McGill, former editor and publisher of The Atlanta Constitution.
McGill was regarded as "the conscience of the South," using the paper's editorial pages to challenge segregation in the 1950s and 1960s.
www.uga.edu /news-bin/artman/exec/view.cgi?archive=6&num=548&printer=1   (667 words)

  
 Ralph McGill attends White County Ladino Clover Festival
Ralph McGill, the editor of the Atlanta Constitution, was the keynoter and a number of the state's top agriculturists, conservationists and foresters were there.
Between that and severe timber cutting, compounded by the Chestnut blight, White County was a devastated land.
and primarily to be a driver for Ralph McGill, was one Gordon Sawyer...
www.accessnorthga.com /articles/history/mcgill.asp   (243 words)

  
 Presidential Medal of Freedom Recipient Ralph Emerson McGill
Editor and journalist, he has courageously sounded the voice of reason, moderation, and progress during a period of contemporary revolution.
alph Emerson McGill, newspaperman, was born in Tennessee in 1898 and studied at Vanderbilt University between 1917 and 1922, with time out for service in the Marines during 1918 and 1919.
His adopted city of Atlanta honored him by changing the name of a street to Ralph McGill Boulevard, after it had carried for decades the name of the first imperial Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan.
www.medaloffreedom.com /RalphMcGill.htm   (204 words)

  
 Presidential Papers, Doc#1008 Personal To Ralph Emerson McGill, 4 August 1954. In The Papers of Dwight David Eisenhower
Dear Ralph: Twice I have read "The Fleas Come with the Dog." As I was going over it last evening, the article "I Left My Lamp Beside the Golden Door" reminded me of a story I recently heard.
McGill had been editor of The Atlanta Constitution, Atlanta, Georgia, since 1942.
Ralph McGill, Atlanta, GA., April 28, 1954" (Correspondence, Archives Technician Bonita B. Mulanax, Dwight D. Eisenhower Library, Sept. 30, 1992, EP).
www.eisenhowermemorial.org /presidential-papers/first-term/documents/1008.cfm   (373 words)

  
 Ralph Emerson McGill by Teel, Leonard Ray
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.
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.
By tracing McGill’s decades-long career from his early days as a foreign correspondent in Cuba in the 1930s to his steadfast support for the Vietnam War, Teel reveals a man who, in his unique way, embodied twentieth-century liberalism in all its complexities and contraditions.
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 Atlanta Intown Lofts » Blog Archive » Beltline - Ralph McGill Stop
The proposed Ralph McGill beltline stop will be at the train tressel that crosses over Ralph McGill near Freedom Parkway.
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 Directions to Georgia Power — Atlanta Electronic Commerce Forum (AECF)
Go to the third light, which is Ralph McGill Blvd. Turn right on Ralph McGill.
Go to the second light, which is Ralph McGill Blvd. Turn right on Ralph McGill Blvd. Georgia Power is on your right.
Then turn Left (East) onto Ralph McGill and walk 3 blocks.
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 AllRefer.com - Ralph Emerson McGill (Journalism And Publishing, Biography) - Encyclopedia
AllRefer.com - Ralph Emerson McGill (Journalism And Publishing, Biography) - Encyclopedia
Ralph Emerson McGill[mugil´] Pronunciation Key, 1898–1969, American journalist and publisher, b.
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 Ralph Mcgill Quotes
2 Quotes for 'Ralph Mcgill' in the Database.
She got even in a way that was almost cruel.
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 KnoxNews | Election: Ralph McGill
Posted by Ralph McGill on July 17, 2006 at 11:37 AM
These two problems are interconnected and feed off of each other, and it’s a vicious cycle..
Posted by Ralph McGill on July 16, 2006 at 12:56 PM
blogs.knoxnews.com /knx/election/ralphmcgill   (292 words)

  
 Egerton, award-winning journalist, will deliver Ralph McGill Lecture
Egerton will discuss McGill’s influence on a generation of journalists, including John “Pop” Popham, the first Southern correspondent for The New York Times.
The lecture series honors the life of Ralph McGill, who is remembered for his editorials on civil rights.
McGill, whose reputation earned him the moniker “the conscience of the South,” enjoyed a journalism career spanning more than 40 years, including several years as editor and publisher of the Atlanta Constitution.
www.uga.edu /columns/001113/campnews2.html   (395 words)

  
 Ralph Emerson McGill - Encyclopedia.com
Home > Categories > Literature and the Arts > Journalism and Publishing > Journalism and Publishing: Biographies > Ralph Emerson McGill
Ralph Emerson McGill, 1898-1969, American journalist and publisher, b.
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 Ralph McGill Summary
Time called him "the conscience of the South." His profession gave him journalism's highest award, the Pulitzer Prize.
Ralph Emerson McGill(February 5, 1898 – February 3, 1969), American journalist, was best known as the anti-segregationist editor and publisher of the Atlanta Constitution newspaper.
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