Quote of the day
Nobody ever did anything very foolish except from some strong principle.
Ralph McGill
Born: February 5, 1898
Died: February 3, 1969 (aged 70)
Bio: Ralph Emerson McGill was an American journalist, best known as an anti-segregationist editor and publisher of the Atlanta Constitution newspaper. He was a member of the Peabody Awards Board of Jurors, serving from 1945 to 1968.
Known for:
- The South and the Southerner (1963)
- A church, a school (1959)
- The fleas come with the dog (1954)
- Southern encounters
- Israel revisited (1950)