Word: desegregationists
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Married. Ralph McGill, 69, courtly, compassionately desegregationist publisher of the Atlanta Constitution, columnist and author (The South and the Southerner); and Dr. Mary Lynn Morgan, 46, a children's dentist; he for the second time (his first wife died in 1962), she for the first; in Atlanta...
...Quiet Desegregationist. Now winds of change are blowing through the A.B.A. Last week's meeting boasted the first woman invited to address the A.B.A. assembly: the Dowager Marchioness of Reading, first (1958) woman to sit in Britain's House of Lords. This year's outgoing president, Arizonan Walter E. Craig, is a federal judge-select who stoutly defends the Supreme Court. His successor is Virginian Lewis F. Powell Jr., the moderate former chairman of the Richmond school board, who quietly desegregated that city's schools in 1959. Powell's exemplary platform: Speed up A.B.A. efforts...
...pickets were objecting to Lovett's whites-only admission policy, which pits the practice of some wealthy supporters of the church squarely against the desegregationist preaching of their bishops. Atlanta's crusading Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., a Baptist, raised the issue last February, when he asked the school to admit his son. The school said no to him, and later to two Negro children from Episcopal families. The ground for rejection was purely racial, and the arguments have been echoing across Atlanta ever since...