Eugene Patterson Has Died
Eugene Patterson died yesterday. According to his obit: “He wrote about the civil rights movement at a time when many Southern newspapers were reluctant to cover it.”
He headed the St. Pete Times (now the Tampa Bay Times)in the years when former women’s page editor Anne Rowe Goldman served as ombudsman. Here is a link to a story about Patterson naming Goldman to her position.
Several Southern newspapers were champions of civil rights but overlooked inequities that women faced – including in the newsroom. There is a comment in the book Orange Journalism which noted that Goldman should have promoted higher but was not because she was a woman.
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