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The Atlanta Journal-Constitution employed their best staff photographers to cover stories for the weekly magazine. Two of these photographers were Kenneth Rogers and Floyd Jillson, both of whom worked for the paper for over 40 years each.
Apr 20, 2015 · Atlanta Journal-Constitution staff photographer Kent D. Johnson was the courtroom photographer during the landmark trial in Atlanta that resulted in the conviction of 11 former Atlanta...
Jun 11, 2021 · Two teachers and 55 students were photographed in the 1920s in front of the Jefferson Jacob School in Kentucky. Andrew Feiler reproduced the photo for his book on the Rosenwald Schools.
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Ralph Emerson McGill was born on February 5, 1898, in the remote farming community of Igou’s Ferry, about twenty miles north of Chattanooga, Tennessee. He was the second son (the first died as an infant) of Mary Lou Skillern and Benjamin Franklin McGill. McGill graduated from the McCallie School in Chattanooga and between 1917 and 1922 (with time o...
McGill’s distinct writing voice established him as a popular talent, giving the morning Constitution an edge over the two afternoon papers, the Atlanta Georgian, owned by the William Randolph Hearst chain, and the Atlanta Journal. As in Nashville, his enormous energy and sense of timing secured him opportunities to write on serious subjects. In 193...
Between 1938 and 1954 McGill courageously portrayed the South’s failure to live up to the “separate but equal” ruling by the U.S. Supreme Court in 1896. Without advocating integration, he described the deplorable conditions of Georgia’s Black schools, comparing their budgets for books and buildings with those of white schools. In the political aren...
McGill published four books over the course of his career. The first three consisted primarily of compilations of his newspaper columns. One of these three, A Church, a School (1959), comprised his editorials on the Temple bombing in Atlanta and on hate crimes by the Ku Klux Klan. It was these editorials for which McGill won the Pulitzer Prize in 1...
May 10, 2024 · Mia Dieguez entered Dunwoody High School classroom 1102 the morning of May 6 looking sickly. She lay her head down. “Mia typically slept in class, so when class began, Mia rested her head on her ...
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Dec 6, 2023 · Updated Dec 6, 2023. A Gainesville High School baseball player who was hit in the head in a freak accident at the school’s batting cages has been pronounced brain dead, his family announced ...
Oct 27, 2019 · At a high school in Johns Creek, Georgia criminals spray painted a swatiska on the building. In Knoxville, Tennessee, antisemites spray painted “Jews did 9/11” at a major university campus. We see it reported in the media and on social networking feeds and we hear about it from acquaintances and strangers on the street.
