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...Atlanta Constitution and Executive Editor Ralph McGill buckled down to work 13 years ago to drive the Ku Klux Klan out of Georgia. The Constitution repeatedly headlined hooded assault and fiery cross burnings, prodded lethargic cops into jailing several of the ringleaders, kept up a constant drumfire of ridicule. When Indiana Veterinarian James A. Colescott was chosen Imperial Wizard of the Klan, Editor McGill wrote: "For the first time the Klan has chosen a proper man, a veterinarian skilled in dealing with dumb animals...
...some sharp things to say about he way Northern newspapers had covered the fight. When the first bill was debated, said McGill, the story was given front-page play in the North. Last week, after thumbing through 30 Northern newspapers, McGill angrily wrote: "Let anything suggestive of Ku Klux Klan violence happen in Georgia or the South nd the Northern and Eastern papers are certain to give it front-page play and bitter editorial condemnation. But we have searched in vain for comment on ... passage of the antimask bill, which . . . signals the death and burial of the Klan...
...doubt who was boss. "In this state," he declared, "there can be but one government. That must be a government of the people under law. There can be but one governor ... I am going to be that governor ... I do not need the assistance of the Ku Klux Klan, nor do I want interference from the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People...
...Alton's schools, and Gill was openly in the anti-segregation fight. One day 175 Negro boys & girls tried to register at five grade schools and two junior high schools. Gill organized his fellow ministers to supervise the demonstration and prevent trouble. When crosses in the Ku Klux Klan tradition were burned on the riverfront to intimidate the Negroes, Gill's pulpit denunciation, and a newspaper statement which 17 other ministers signed, were the only voices in Alton raised publicly in opposition...
...century. Its rambling, episodic story, adapted by Joe David Brown from his own novel, follows the town parson (Joel McCrea) through a typhoid epidemic, a friendly joust with a local skeptic (the late Alan Hale), a feud with a young, unproven doctor (James Mitchell), a brush with the Ku Klux Klan on behalf of a Negro parishioner (Juano Hernandez...