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Claude Sitton

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Photograph of journalist Claude Sitton Claude Sitton (right) covering the desegregation of the University of Georgia in 1961 as the southern correspondent for the New York Times. An unidentified man stands on the left.A 1949 graduate of Emory, Sitton is best known for his civil rights reporting in the New York Times and for his editorship of the News and Observer in Raleigh, North Carolina.
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  1. Athens
  2. Georgia
  3. Journalists
  4. Newspaper Editors
  5. Reporters And Reporting
  6. Segregation In Higher Education
  7. Sitton, Claude
  8. Universities
  9. University Of Georgia

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