Reminiscences of Fred Powledge : oral history, 1987.

Biographical Note

Journalist.

Scope and Contents

Editor, "Daily Tar Heel," University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill; editor, "Lower South Carolina Sentinel," 1954; writer/ editor, Associated Press, New Haven, Connecticut; reporter on civil rights movement, "Atlanta Journal," 1960-1963: management restrictions on coverage of civil rights movement, activities in Atlanta, recollections of Ku Klux Klan, riot over James Meredith's enrollment at University of Mississippi, coverage of Georgia state legislature, summer of 1962 in Albany, Georgia, displays of personal courage, importance of church in Black community, death threats; reporter, "New York Times": coverage of civil rights movement in the North, March on Washington, War on Poverty, youth political organizations, Kennedy assassination, Northern riots, comparisons of Northern and Southern racial attitudes, interracial relationships, new student left; importance of journalists to civil rights movement.

Subjects

• Caplan, Janet, interviewer.--http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ivr
• College integration--Mississippi.
• Interracial dating.
• Interviews.
• Journalism--Georgia--Atlanta.
• Journalism--Political aspects.
• Journalists--Interviews.
• Ku Klux Klan (1915- )
• Oral histories.
• Powledge, Fred.
• Presidents--Assassination--United States--1963.
• Press coverage of civil rights movements--United States.
• Student movements--New left.
• United States--Race relations.

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