Laurie Pritchett was a police Chief of Albany, Georgia. When the Albany Movement began in 1961, SNCC and SCLC’s young organizers reached to help an African American citizen’s conflict of discrimination. Pritchett instructed the police to enforce the law without aggression and arrested those who unsettled the public order. In the interview, he uttered his thoughtful compassion for the African Americans. …show more content…
Petersburg Times. After Patterson’s success, Ralph McGill was promoted as a publisher from the editor of the Atlanta Constitution. He wrote about the civil rights movement at a time, when many southern newspapers would not antagonistically cover it. Moreover, Patterson was asked by an FBI agent to print the damaging information about Martin Luther King (MLK), as he was being unfaithful to his wife. Patterson stated that agent said: “Look, we’re not a peephole journal. We don’t print this kind of stuff on any man. And we’re not going to do it on Dr. King.” He said, “Furthermore, I’m shocked that you would be spying on American citizen” (368). When the FBI agent approached him a second time to print false information about Martin Luther King (MLK), Patterson finally told him that, “Well, that’s pretty dangerous stuff, and it’s not our kind of journalism” (369). Patterson illustrated nostalgic sights of agonizing and loss to censure violence and failures of