"KKK in the Civil Rights Era"

"Organized Resistance to Racial Laws Grows"

Newspaper article

By: John N. Popham

Date: December 2, 1956

Source: The New York Times.

About the Author: John N. Popham was hired by the New York Times in 1947 to work in Chattanooga, Tennessee, near the offices of the Chattanooga Times. Popham reported on the important social changes that were occurring in the region during the late 1940s and 1950s. Popham quickly established himself as a reliable and unbiased journalist, with an expertise concerning political and social events brewing in the southern states. Popham continued to work at the New York Times until 1958, when he left to become the executive editor of the Chattanooga Times.