Both Hemphill and Howell served as mayor of Atlanta, Hemphill during his years as a Constitution executive and Howell after he retired from the paper. Howell bought an interest in the Constitution and became its president and editor-in-chief, positions he held until 1897. Hemphill served as principal owner and publisher until 1901. Six months later Styles moved to Texas and sold his interest to his partner, James Anderson, who subsequently passed it to William Arnold Hemphill, his son-in-law and the paper’s business manager. president Andrew Johnson, who thought it apt for a Democratic newspaper advocating the restoration of constitutional government (Georgia remained under federal military rule at the time). Legend says the new name was suggested by U.S. He bought the Atlanta Daily Opinion, one of several newspapers serving the city’s 20,288 residents, and renamed it the Atlanta Constitution. The Constitution was founded in 1868 by Carey Wentworth Styles, an Atlanta lawyer and entrepreneur. Grady, whose lobbying efforts set the stage for the South’s agricultural and industrial growth following a difficult Reconstruction period Joel Chandler Harris, whose colorful Uncle Remus tales -African American folk tales written in dialect-first appeared in the Constitution Margaret Mitchell, the author of the international best-seller Gone With the Wind Ralph McGill, a passionate voice of reason in the early days of the civil rights movement, whose personal essays-a new journalistic form-ran on the front page of the Constitution. The Journal and Constitution have won numerous Pulitzer Prizes and have nurtured the careers of many famous journalists, including: Henry W. The Journal-Constitution is the largest daily newspaper in the Southeast, with an average daily circulation of 640,000. The longtime rivals, which had been under common ownership since March 1950, merged on November 5, 2001, and are currently published daily under a joint masthead. Until recently, Atlanta had two-the Atlanta Constitution, first published on June 16, 1868, and the Atlanta Journal, which debuted on February 24, 1883. Robert W.Few cities in America have a daily newspaper that has published continuously for more than 100 years. Woodruff Library’s Atlanta Newspaper Guide, or contact Erica Bruchko or Jennifer Elder. Today’s paper and 60-days of back files.įor additional information about the the Atlanta Constitution or other Atlanta-area newspapers please visit the Robert W. PressDisplay: Full-color, digitized print edition of the AJC.LexisNexis: Indexed articles reproduced in HTML format.Newsbank/Access World News: Indexed articles reproduced in HTML format photos, graphics, some articles are excluded. 1985- present.Factiva: Indexed articles reproduced in HTML format from the Atlanta Journal Constitution ( AJC). 1986-present.Proquest Newspapers: Unlike Proquest Historical Newspapers, indexed articles are reproduced in HTML format.Atlanta Constitution Historical/ Proquest Historical Newspapers: Full-page, downloadable, black and white images from the Constitution.These additions nearly complete the Woodruff Library’s digital run of the Constitution and its successor, The Atlanta Journal Constitution. They are available in the following databases: This is the first time that Civil Rights-era back files of the flagship newspaper have been made available to researchers in fully searchable, digital form. Nearly 40 years of reporting have been added to the Proquest Historical Newspapers database, which now extends through 1984. Woodruff Library is pleased to announce expanded digital coverage of the Atlanta Constitution Historical. ![]() Ralph Emerson McGill, long-time journalist, editor and publisher of the Atlanta Constitution.
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