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Ralph McGill
A Biography
by Barbara Barksdale Clowse
Ralph McGill's life and work (1898-1969) show how an individual becomes committed to the cause of civil rights and justice. In Vienna, 1938, while still a sports writer, McGill felt a "calling" to fight intolerance, hatred, and racial prejudice. He assumed his eventual role of "conscience of the South" in stages. He became an editor of The Atlanta Constitution but for years struggled to master political and economic commentary. The death of two daughters, his wife's illnesses, and management of problems at the newspaper further hindered his efforts.
Barbara Barksdale Clowse holds a PhD in History from the UNC, Chapel Hill. She lives in Greensboro, NC, and has taught at UNC Greensboro and North Carolina A & T. She is the author of Brainpower For the Cold War: The Sputnik Crisis and national Defense Education Act of 1958, Greenwood Press, 1981 and Women, Decision Making, and the Future, Westminster, John Knox Press, 1985.
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