{"product_id":"9781611171297","title":"A Church, a School: Pulitzer Prize-Winning Civil Rights Editorials from the Atlanta Constitution","description":"Ralph McGill (1898-1969) was the editor in chief of the \u003ci\u003eAtlanta Constitution\u003c\/i\u003e during the turbulent years of the civil rights movement that followed \u003ci\u003eBrown v. Board of Education,\u003c\/i\u003e and he became an outspoken advocate for integration and racial tolerance in the South. In this Southern Classics edition, Angie Maxwell offers a new critical introduction that analyzes McGill's as an activist and advocate for social change.The editorials that compose \u003ci\u003eA Church, a School\u003c\/i\u003e marked McGill's emergence as a prolific advocate of nonviolence and social responsibility and evidenced the progressive values of the \u003ci\u003eConstitution. \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eA Church, a School\u003c\/i\u003e contains twenty-nine editorials that elucidate the historical record of liberal Southern participation in the civil rights movement. This is not a record of what happened in the South in the late 1950s; rather it is a map of the intellectual and psychological terrain that liberal journalists, such as McGill, traveled and the obstacles they encountered.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of South Carolina Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47018456416496,"sku":"9781611171297","price":16.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781611171297_p0.jpg?v=1763845314","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781611171297","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}