Morgan to Talese Letter 1/11/65 Searchable Text

[Letter on American Civil Liberties Union letterhead with Board of Directors, Directors Emeritus, and National Committee listed in left margin]

SOUTHERN REGIONAL OFFICE
American Civil Liberties Union
5 FORSYTH STREET, N.W.,  ATLANTA, GEORGIA30303  523-2721

                                                                                          Charles Morgan, Jr.
                                                                                          Director
                                                                                          Jean Levine
January 11, 1965                                                           Executive Assistant

Mrs. Gay Talese
Random House, Inc.
457 Madison Avenue
New York 22, N.Y.

Dear Nan:

Birmingham has only two daily newspapers -- the
Birmingham News and the Birmingham Post-Herald.

The former is owned by S. I. Newhouse and the
latter by Scripps-Howard.  Cox owns the Atlanta
newspapers (except for the Atlanta Times, a new
adventure in right-wing dailyism) but not those
in Birmingham.  To go a little further, the Cox
papers in Atlanta, the Journal and Constitution,
have exhibited leadership in racial crises via
Ralph McGill et al; Birmingham was not equally
blessed.

I don’t know what Robert Penn Warren’s thesis is. 
But I consider myself the worlds’ single, outstanding
authority on defaulting Yankee newspaper
owners whose southern progeny blew hot when cool
northern breezes might have calmed the water.

Regards to Gay.

Sincerely,

[Signed: Chuck]

Charles Morgan, Jr.

CM/jl

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