Word: mcgills
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...While he was asking Secretary Rusk about all the money that wasn't going into the ghettos," McGill relates, "Fulbright managed to take time out to go vote against the Open Housing bill...
ALWAYS eager to join a battle and turn it into a crusade if he can, McGill has never let the battle-field slip away under his feet. In 1938, when he became executive editor of the Constitution, the Atlanta chapter of the KKK staged a protest parade around the Constitution building, denouncing him. Since then, particularly in times of racial tension, he has received a steady stream of obscene phone calls and occasional loads of garbage dumped on his front lawn...
Still contentious in his gently astringent way, McGill revels in outflanking questioners who hesitate in pressing the Southerner too hard on race. Should blacks in the South as well as in the North be exposed to African history? "The white Southerner needs courses in African History and the achievement of the Negro in America just as much as the Negro does." And he chides some of the less militant civil rights organizations for becoming too middle class, losing their appeal for younger blacks...
...McGill points with particular pride to the changes which civil rights legislation and maturing black political power have wrought in the South. In the past six years alone, he points out, Georgia has freed herself of the blatantly undemocratic county-unit rule, has reapportioned her legislature, and has seen the voting rights act, in conjunction with voter registration projects, raise Negro voting levels throughout the state...
Georgia now has 11 Negro legislators, McGill notes, more than any other states except Michigan and Illinois. All but one of the eleven come from Atlanta, where the influx of blacks from rural areas and the exodus of middle class whites to the suburbs have left the city with a 43 per cent black population. McGill claims that within about four years Atlanta will very likely have a Negro mayor...