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An Editor of Conscience:
In an era when most Southern newspapers either ignored or underplayed the civil rights movement, Atlanta Constitution editor Ralph Emerson McGill crusaded for integration. White Southerners should change, he wrote, "because they want to.. not because they are made to do it."
Segregation Battle:
When nine black students in Arkansas attempted to integrate Little Rock's Central High School in 1957, television and newspapers showed the nation images that made most Americans uncomfortable -- law enforcement officers and US troops escorting students, the hate-filled faces of white segregationists and acts of violence. |