Description

Photograph of Ralph McGill, who was a long-time editor and publisher of the Atlanta Constitution. He sits in a chair and holds a pair of eyeglasses in his left hand. McGill was a leading voice for racial and ethnic tolerance in the South from the 1940s through the 1960s. As an influential daily columnist, he broke the code of silence on the subject of segregation.

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New Georgia Encyclopedia

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Digital Library of Georgia