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January 14, 1965

Mr. Robert Penn Marren2495 Ridding loadFairfield, Connecticut

Dear !!r. Warren:

Here is a letter from Charles Morgan in anser to myr question aboutCow ownership of Georgian papers. Does this help?

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Mr. Charles Morgan, Jr.Aerican Civil Liberties Union5 Forsyth Street, N.W.Atlanta, Georgia

Dear Chuck:

Many thanks for your letter about Miotbkern newspaper ownership.The book Waarren is doing is a series of interviewa with leaders andthose of influence in civil rights - all Negro. He occasionallyintersperces the actual interviews with such information as you havesupplied. He is on the side of the angels.

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Mr. Charles MorganHarper b Bown Publishers, Inc.49 last 33 Streetview York City

Deer Chuck:

Could you help me with some information aboutBirmigham? Robert Penn Warren is doing a book, "whoSpeaks for the Negro?", which we will publish, aboutcivil rights. He suspects that the main Birmingham news-papers are owned by Coz, who is from the North. Do youknow if this is true? Can it be substantiated? Wes wouldgreatly appreciate the information inasmuch as it isimportant to one of Warren's thses in the book.

With all best wishes from Gayyour family for a wonderful Christens.

and me to you and

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January 11, 1965

Mrs. Gay TaleseRando~t House, Inc .457 Madison AvenueNew York 22, N.Y.

Dear Nan:

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

The former is owned by S. I. Newhouse and thelatter by Scripps-Howard. Cox owns the Atlantanewspapers (except for the Atlanta Times, a newadventure in right-wing dailyism) but not thosein Birmingham. To go a little further, the Coxpapers in Atlanta, the Journal and Constitution,have exhibited leadership in racial crises viaRalph McGill et al; Birmingham was not equallyblessed.

I donut know what Robert Penn Warren's thesis is.But I consider myself the worlds' single, out-standing authority on defaulting Yankee newspaperowners whose southern progeny blew hot when coolnorthern breezes might have calmed the water.

Regards to Gay.

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Mrs. Gay TaleseRando 1 House, Inc .457 Madison AvenueNew York 22, N.Y.

Dear Nan:

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two daily newspapers -- thethe Birmingham Post-Herald.

The former is owned by S. I. Newhouse and thelatter by Scripps-Howard. Cox owns the Atlantanewspapers (except for the Atlanta Times, a newadventure in right-wing dailyism) but not thosein Birmingham. To go a little further, the Coxpapers in Atlanta, the Journal and Constitution,have exhibited leadership in racial crises viaRalph McGill et al; Birmingham was not equallyblessed.

I don;-t know what Robert Penn Warren's thesis is.But I consider myself the worlds' single, out-standing authority on defaulting Yankee newspaperowners whose southern progeny blew hot when coolnorthern breezes might have calmed the water.

Regards to Gay.

Sincerely,

Charles Morgan, Jr.CM : 1

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