Word: ralph
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Some 400 poor people from New England will spend Thursday in Boston before leaving Friday for Washington. On Thursday afternoon, they will hear the Rev. Ralph Abernathy, head of the SCLC since the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.'s death, speak on "Poverty in America" on the Boston Common...
...Crimson's recent "profile" of Ralph McGill, publisher of the Atlanta Constitution, is a true half-portrait. The full man, as any daily reader of his column can attest, looks rather different...
...point clear?... Yet in spite of these remarks Ralph McGill is invaluable, because the South needs his voice on civil rights. By the same token, however, Senator Fulbright, whom your "profile" writer permits Mr. McGill to criticize without rebuttal as a pathetic "sort of character with a great liberal reputation," is equally invaluable--obviously not because he votes against open housing legislation but because the nation needs his voice on foreign policy...
...Ralph McGill and Senator Fulbright are faithful representatives of the South: the two men, as well as the region, suffer some kind of moral schizophrenia, though in the case of the publisher and the Senator, they represent this malady in opposite directions. They reflect the most unenviable aspects of the heritage of the political culture of the South. Jingoism and racism. Each man has been able to overcome one of these burdens in his public life, but not both...
...your "profile" were merely incomplete in failing to indicate the whole Ralph McGill, there would be little cause to object. But it fails at the same time to indicate the whole of the crucial ambiguities of southern leadership which Ralph McGill represents. It is this more fundamental problem that Crimson readers, as well as southerners, must be aware of if the South is ever to develop an integrated, constructive, and humane public morality. Charles A. Miller Atlanta...