Ralph McGill
Activist

Ralph McGill Net Worth

He was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for editorial writing in 1959 and was posthumously awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1998. Ralph McGill was an influential Activist and Editor of the Atlanta Constitution newspaper who was a major public figure in the anti-segregation movement. He was born in 1898 and had a net worth of $409 billion. He was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for editorial writing in 1959 and posthumously awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1998.
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Age, Biography and Wiki

Birth Day February 5, 1898
Birth Place Tennessee
Age 121 YEARS OLD
Birth Sign Aquarius

💰 Net worth: $409 billion (2024)

About

Editor of the Atlanta Constitution newspaper who was a leading public voice in the anti-segregation movement.

Before Fame

His career as a crusading journalist began after he was suspended by Vanderbilt University for an article he wrote criticizing the school.

Trivia

As the paper's editor-in-chief, and then its publisher, he used its editorial pages to urge readers to accept the equality of races and to end the separate-but-equal policy.

Family Life

He was born on a farming community near Soddy-Daisy, Tennessee just twenty miles north of Chattanooga.

Associated With

His brave editorial pieces brought him a Pulitzer prize in 1959, and both presidents Lyndon B. Johnson and John F. Kennedy enlisted his help in promoting civil rights.

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