Merritt, Carole
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In this interview, William Fowlkes discusses his experience with racial segregation and discrimination growing up in Tennessee. He describes his employment as managing editor and reporter at the Atlanta Daily World and several other black publications. Fowlkes was employed at the Atlanta Daily World during the teacher pay equalization struggle and the lynching of four African Americans in Monroe, Georgia. He ends the interview with his assessment of current race relations in Atlanta and by addressing the need for economic development in the black community.William Fowlkes was born in Union City, Tennessee. He graduated from high school in Dyersburg, Tennessee and moved to Atlanta, Georgia in the 1930s after graduating from Tennessee State in Nashville, Tennessee.
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Atlanta History CenterRecord Harvested From
Digital Library of GeorgiaKeywords
- African Americans
- Associated Negro Press
- Atlanta
- Atlanta Daily World (Firm)
- Butler Street Ymca (Atlanta, Ga.)
- Civil Rights
- Discrimination
- Ebony Magazine
- Economic & Social Conditions
- Education
- Georgia
- History
- Jet Magazine
- Life And Casualty Insurance Company Of Nashville
- Newspaper Carriers
- Race Discrimination
- Race Relations
- Racism
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