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...edition of March 4 in which you quote from a recent article by Erskine Caldwell which appeared in the New York Post. I am not making direct answer to Caldwell in a communication addressed to you, but I wish to ask that you read the attached editorial from the Augusta Chronicle and the indignant denial of the charges made by Caldwell by prominent people from the section to which he refers. . . . . . . Until now no one has taken the trouble to call Caldwell's hand but I think it is now high time to do so.... THOMAS J. HAMILTON Editor...
...affect civic-proud Georgians as the coming of the bollweevil. Regularly he infuriates them by writing of terrorized Negroes, of poverty, ignorance, depravity, degeneracy among the poor whites. Latest indignity was his series of articles for the loudly liberal New York Post on the misery of starving sharecroppers near Augusta. In savage detail he described family after family-hungry, diseased, decayed, hopeless (TIME, March...
Quivering with rage the Southern Press shouted "Libel!" But the 150-year-old Augusta Chronicle ("The South's Oldest Newspaper") restrained itself. Withholding epithets and stock denials, the Chronicle's Editor Thomas J. Hamilton promised to investigate the Caldwell charges, to report accurately, fearlessly. With the author's father, Rev. Ira Sylvester Caldwell of nearby Wrens, Ga. as guide, two Chronicle newshawks scoured the bleak "sand hill" section between Wrens and Keysville-setting for Tobacco Road. True to promise, the Chronicle front-paged their findings in five straightforward reports which, in any Northern publication, might well have...
...vignettes of life under the New Deal for landless, dole-less, hopeless share croppers 25 miles from Augusta, Ga., as seen by Erskine Caldwell...
...running between Chicago and Los Angeles, as a police station handyman in Chicago, as a wanderer in the Deep South. At intervals he taught dramatics at North Carolina Agriculture & Engineering College, Branch Normal (Arkansas) and Flipper-Key College (Oklahoma). Mostly he made his headquarters around Haines Institute at Augusta, Ga. At commencement time he would put on plays. In return, Headmistress Lucy Laney literally kept him from starving during the rest of the year. She died the day that The Green Pastures came to Augusta...