Word: edstrom
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...genial Kentuckian has largely practiced what he preaches about a varied background. Interested in newspaper work from the start, Edstrom began work on a small weekly "throw-away" journal while still at Wayne University in Detroit. He attracted the attention of the metropolitan dailies, moved up to the Detroit Free Press, and after several years, shifted to the Toledo News Beam...
...Edstrom takes greatest pride, however, in the Courier-Journal, the largest liberal paper in the South. A long line of progressive owners and editors has made possible its uniquely independent plank, proving, Edstrom believes, that "honest publishers make honest newspapers, and honest journalism pays in the long...
Believing that the newspaper should contribute to the well-being of the community, Edstrom is hopeful that they can do a "great deal" towards racial tolerance, and, more specifically, to help stamp out discrimination against the Negro...
...only hurt the cause of the Southern Negro," according to Edstrom, "if you holler about social equality. That," he explains, "is a thing you can't legislate. I'm afraid that if we don't approach the problems in the right way," he warns, "we're going to have conflict, bloody conflict." The Courier-Journal has consistently campaigned for equal political and economic opportunities for Negroes, supporting several of their candidates in state and local elections...
...Edstrom grants that "the Negro is still not a one hundred percent American citizen, although he has a lot of advantages which he never had before. His whole course has been upward and outward," he adds, however, "and no other race can show comparable progress...