Date of Award
1988
Type
Thesis
Major
Specialist in Education
Degree Type
Special Degree in Education
Department
Teacher Education
First Advisor
Dr. John B. Myers
Second Advisor
Dr. Bob G. Henderson
Third Advisor
Dr. D. Glen Walls
Abstract
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.
Recommended Citation
Regnier, Michael L., "Columbus' Combative Editor: Julian LaRose Harris versus The Klan in Georgia, 1921-1929" (1988). Theses and Dissertations. 693.
https://csuepress.columbusstate.edu/theses_dissertations/693
