McGill, Ralph, 1898-1969
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Name (Latin)
McGill, Ralph, 1898-1969
Other forms of name
McGill, Ralph Emerson, 1898-1969
Date of birth
1898-02-05
Date of death
1969-02-03
Associated country
United States
Field of activity
Journalism
Occupation
Journalists
Newspaper editors
Associated Language
eng
Gender
male
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Sources of Information
- McGill died suddenly of a heart attack in Atlanta on February 3, 1969, just two days before his seventy-first birthday. ( (New Georgia Encyclopedia September 19, 2023:) )
- Ralph Emerson McGill (February 5, 1898 - February 3, 1969) was an American journalist and editorialist. McGill was born February 5, 1898, near Soddy-Daisy, [Hamilton County] Tennessee. After the war, McGill got a job working for the sports department of the Nashville Banner and soon worked his way up to sports editor. In 1929, he moved to Atlanta, Georgia to become the assistant sports editor of The Atlanta Constitution. ( (Wikipedia September 19, 2023:) )
- His Two Georgians explore Scandinavia ... 1938.
- His The best of Ralph McGill, 1980:t.p. (Ralph McGill)
- Ralph McGill, a biography, c1998:CIP t.p. (Ralph McGill) introd. (Ralph Emerson McGill; reporter, editor, and columnist for the Atlanta constitution; b. Feb. 5, 1898; d. 1969; CIP galley (Ralph Waldo Emerson McGill)
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Ralph McGill
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Wikipedia description:
Ralph Emerson McGill (February 5, 1898 – February 3, 1969) was an American journalist and editorialist. An anti-segregationist editor, he published the Atlanta Constitution newspaper despite receiving threats and intimidation such as crosses burned on his lawn from white supremacist terror groups. Martin Luther King Jr. named him in his Letter from Birmingham Jail. He was also one of the first critics of Joseph McCarthy. He won a Pulitzer Prize for editorial writing in 1959 and was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1964. Since his death, he was inducted in the Georgia Newspaper Hall of Fame and has had a school and a road named after him in Atlanta.
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