Word: atlantae
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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GEORGIA: 163,380 Negroes registered out of 633,390 eligible: five rural counties permitted only dribbles of Negroes to register; several more kept out Negro voters altogether, dragged down Atlanta's generally high Negro returns...
...fact in the controversy: thousands of qualified Negroes in the Deep South are still regularly denied their right to vote. How, in the face of modern justice, and by whom, in the light of morality, is a detective story of intriguing proportions. From the authoritative Southern Regional Council in Atlanta last week came a detailed analysis of Negro voting. See NATIONAL AFFAIRS, Southern Negroes & the Vote...
...Publisher Cox took on what he called "my largest enterprise," by paying $3,500,000 for the Atlanta evening Journal and its rival, the Georgian, on which Hearst had lost $10 million in 27 years. Merging the two papers, Cox successfully battled "the dangerous and disgraceful regime" of Governor Eugene Talmadge. He was 79 when he bought Atlanta's other daily, the morning Constitution. Asked, like Lewis Carroll's Father William, how he did so much at his age, Cox replied: "Running water never grows stagnant...
...Herald and Springfield Sun.) Overall management of the seven-paper group and a string of allied TV and radio stations fell increasingly to James Cox Jr., the twice-married publisher's son. But the governor still showed up at his Dayton office, held frequent long-distance powwows with Atlanta Constitution Editor Ralph McGill, even found time to indulge his second passion, golf.* A fortnight ago, Fighting Jimmy suffered a stroke in the $3,000,000 Dayton newspaper building he had dedicated last month, died five days later at the home outside Dayton that he called Trailsend...
Died. James Middleton Cox, 87, longtime newspaper publisher (Dayton Daily News, Miami Daily News, Atlanta Constitution, etc.), governor of Ohio (1913-15, 1917-21), and, with Franklin D. Roosevelt as running mate, the unsuccessful Democratic candidate for President in 1920; in Dayton (see PRESS...