Harry Golden: Bestselling author, raconteur, and advocate for civil rights with his irreverent newspaper, The Carolina Israelite Main Menu J. Murrey Atkins Library, UNC Charlotte

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When New Yorker Harry Golden (1902? - 1981*) landed in Charlotte in the early 1940s, he was a middle-aged felon; a stout, gravelly-voiced, cigar-smoking Jewish raconteur – and no one’s idea of a hero. Yet over the next three decades he helped shape America's view of the civil rights movement with his irreverent one-man newspaper, Carolina Israelite, his TV appearances, syndicated column, speeches, and more than 20 books, five of them bestsellers. (*Official documents put Golden's birth year variously between 1902-1903. The FBI and his death certificate agree on 1903.)
Above: Harry Golden in his office. Photographer: Thomas Benton Hollyman. Used with the permission of the Thomas Benton Hollyman Photographic Trust. This image taken from photographic print, Harry Golden Papers, MS0020, J. Murrey Atkins Library, The University of North Carolina at Charlotte.

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