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Emory gets papers of civil rights hero, editor, Gene Patterson

Eugene Patterson won a Pulitizer Prize on the strength of his writing about the civil rights movement. Emory University has acquired his papers.
Eugene Patterson won a Pulitizer Prize on the strength of his writing about the civil rights movement. Emory University has acquired his papers.
By Chris Quinn
Nov 30, 2016

The papers of the Pulitzer Prize-winning editor of The Atlanta Journal-Constitution have been acquired by Emory’s Stuart A. Rose Manuscript, Archives and Rare Book Library Acquires Papers of Southern Civil Rights Journalist Eugene Patterson

Patterson, who died in 2013, was a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, editor of The Atlanta Constitution and The Washington Post, and a significant voice for civil rights in the 1960s.

Patterson’s papers include correspondence, photographs, subject files, and six large scrapbooks filled with his daily columns.

As editor of The Atlanta Constitution, Patterson received widespread national attention for his column “A Flower for the Graves,” about the Birmingham church bombing that killed four young girls on Sept. 15, 1963. The column, published the next day, was so moving that Patterson was invited to read it aloud that night on the CBS Evening News with Walter Cronkite.

This year marks the 50th anniversary of the year Patterson was writing the columns that won him the 1967 Pulitzer Prize for editorial columns.

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