The Changing South of Gene Patterson

The Changing South of Gene Patterson celebrates the work of one of America's most influential journalists who wrote in a time and place of dramatic social and political upheaval. The editor of the Atlanta Constitution from 1960 through 1968, Patterson wrote directly to his fellow white southerners every day, working to persuade them to change their ways. His words were so inspirational that he was asked by Walter Cronkite to read his most famous column, about the Birmingham church bombing, live on the CBS Evening News.

This volume includes over 120 of Patterson's best columns of probing commentary on the crucial issues of race, civil rights, social justice, and desegregation; some reveal examples of political and moral leadership, drawn from every corner of southern culture. Introductory essays, framing Patterson's work as journalism and literature, place it in the context of southern history and the evolution of white southern liberalism. Patterson himself contributes a new essay, reflecting on his life, work, and times.

At a time when protest, violence, a

Roy Peter Clark is a senior scholar at The Poynter Institute, a school for journalists in St. Petersburg, Florida. Raymond Arsenault is the John Hope Franklin Professor of History at the University of South Florida, St. Petersburg.

Series Foreword	p. xi
Acknowledgments	p. xv
Introduction
A Journalist's View: How Gene Patterson Persuaded His White Southern Kinfolk to Do What Was Right	p. 3
A Historian's View: Gene Patterson, Southern Liberalism, and the Vise of History	p. 17
The Atlanta Columns of Eugene Patterson, 1960-1968
1960: A Rising Wind	p. 45
1961: The Rock and the Anchor	p. 61
1962: Acts of Honor	p. 89
1963: One Small Shoe	p. 121
1964: How Do You Reach Them?	p. 153
1965: Thumping the Melon	p. 181
1966: The Savage Difference	p. 199
1967: Hooked on a Log	p. 219
1968: A Thousand Times Unafraid	p. 231
Reflections
Forged in Battle: The Formative Experience of War	p. 245
The Long Road Back to Georgia	p. 255
Gene Patterson: An Appreciation	p. 277
The Legacy of Gene Patterson: An Interview with Cynthia Tucker	p. 281
Cast of Characters	p. 287
Selected Bibliography	p. 295
Notes on Editors and Contributors	p. 301
Index	p. 303
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