C.A. Scott
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Cornelius Adolphus (C. A.) Scott served as editor of the Atlanta Daily World from 1934 until his retirement in 1997. Although more conservative than many black editors of his time, Scott spoke out about Georgia's white primary system and advocated school integration and black suffrage in the pages of the newspaper.
This file appears in: Jim Crow Childhood
Jim Crow Childhood
"But now as far as the attitude, I went into the Army at age 20. And I -- I guess I have been familiar with the number of forms of discrimination that blacks were subjected to. I've lived all of my life in the south. I was born in Johnson City,…