An editor and his newspaper helped build white supremacy in Georgia
- Written by Kathy Roberts Forde, Associate Professor, Journalism Department, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Henry W. Grady coined the phrase the ‘New South.’C.W. Mates/Library of Congress
The press is an essential guardrail of democracy. As The Washington Post tells its readers, “Democracy Dies in Darkness.”
But the press has not always been a champion of democracy.
In the late 19th century, Henry W. Grady, one of the...
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