- Collection:
- New Georgia Encyclopedia
- Title:
- Claude Sitton
- Date of Original:
- 1961
- Subject:
- Journalists--Georgia--Athens
Reporters and reporting--Georgia--Athens
Newspaper editors--Georgia--Athens
Segregation in higher education--Georgia--Athens
University of Georgia - People:
- Sitton, Claude
- Location:
- United States, Georgia, Clarke County, Athens, 33.96095, -83.37794
- Medium:
- black-and-white photographs
- Type:
- StillImage
- Format:
- image/jpeg
- Description:
- Journalist Claude Sitton (right) covers the desegregation of the University of Georgia in 1961 as the southern correspondent for the New York Times.
Photograph of journalist Claude Sitton Claude Sitton (right) covering the desegregation of the University of Georgia in 1961 as the southern correspondent for the New York Times. An unidentified man stands on the left.
A 1949 graduate of Emory, Sitton is best known for his civil rights reporting in the New York Times and for his editorship of the News and Observer in Raleigh, North Carolina. - Metadata URL:
- https://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/history-archaeology/claude-sitton-1925-2015/m-11051/
- Rights Holder:
- Reprinted with permission from The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Atlanta Journal-Constitution - Original Collection:
- http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/history-archaeology/claude-sitton-b-1925
Forms part of: New Georgia Encyclopedia - Contributing Institution:
- New Georgia Encyclopedia (Project)
- Rights:
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