Columbus' Combative Editor: Julian LaRose Harris versus The Klan in Georgia, 1921-1929

<p>Despite the apparent ease and gaiety of life in America in the 1920's. there were seamier sides to society. One aspect of the seamy side was race relations. However, Columbus, Georgia, can lay claim to a bright spot in the darkness, the presence of Julian LaRose Harris as owner/editor of The Columbus Enquirer-Sun. Harris became the first, and for a while the only, newspaper man to openly criticize the Ku Klux Klan for Its program of terror and secrecy. Not only did other Georgia dallies follow his lead, but the local chapter of the Klan disbanded for a time in 1923. Then, in close concert with a New York paper, Harris exposed Georgia's governor, Clifford Walker, for furtively leaving the state to address the national klonvocation in Kansas City, Missouri. Walker ran unopposed for a second term while Julian LaRose Harris received the Pulitzer Prize for his fight against the Klan.</p>

Name thesis:degree_name

Specialist in Education

Level thesis:degree_level

Thesis

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Teacher Education

Year

1988

Author dc:creator

• Regnier, Michael L.

Contributors dc:contributor

• Dr. John B. Myers
• Dr. Bob G. Henderson
• Dr. D. Glen Walls

• Race Relations
• Columbus
• Georgia
• Julian LaRose Harris
• The Columbus Enquirer-Sun
• Ku Klux Klan
• America
• Educational Assessment, Evaluation, and Research
• Other Education

Language dc:language

English

Repository record dc:identifier

https://csuepress.columbusstate.edu/theses_dissertations/693

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:csuepress.columbusstate.edu:theses_dissertations-1697