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Margaret Leonard / Long Collection
Collection — Multiple Containers
Collection number: MS-126
Abstract
Margaret (Sissy) Leonard and her family have a long tradition of jounalism and activism during the twentieth century. This tradition began with her grandfather, George Long, who relentlessly attacked the Ku Klux Klan in his editorials at the Macon Telegraph in the early 1900's. Her mother Margaret Long, a progressive journalist, worked at various southern newspapers while writing two published novels and raising two children (mostly alone) at a time when female journalists were a rarity....
Dates:
1900 - 1989; Majority of material found within 1950 - 1970
The Southern Patriot
Collection — Multiple Containers
Collection number: MS-124
Scope and Contents
The Southern Patriot was a progressive southern newspaper that ran from from 1942-1976? out of South Carolina. The newspaper supported and advocated desegregation before and after the Civil Rights Movement. It covered groups like the militant-leaning Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) in a favorable light. It covered the youth movements, sit-ins, and acts of civil disobedience surrounding the Civil Rights Movement and inspired activists in their endeavors.The...
Dates:
1965 - 1976
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- Macon, Georgia 1
- Newspapers 1
- Southern patriot (Charleston, S.C.) 1
- United Negro College Fund 1
- Women's Liberation 1
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- Braden, Anne, 1924-2006 1
- Braden, Carl, 1914-1975 1
- Leonard, Margaret (Civil rights worker) 1
- Long, Margaret, 1911-1989 1
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