Harry Golden: Bestselling author, raconteur, and advocate for civil rights with his irreverent newspaper, The Carolina Israelite

Master networker

Golden was an indefatigable networker and promoter. One of his favorite ploys was to add a well-known author, philanthropist, politician, or actor to the Carolina Israelite circulation list without the celebrity’s knowledge, then mention the famous person in print as one of the newspaper’s loyal subscribers. Many real connections grew out of his name-dropping. Golden's rich, wide-ranging correspondence demonstrates his ability to aggressively promote civil rights causes and bring attention to his own role in the movement -- while revealing his gift for befriending the exalted literati and the shamed prison inmate, the conservative and the radical, the artist and the cleric.
 

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  1. Harry Golden Dawn Schmitz

Contents of this path:

  1. Local politics
  2. The Rev. Billy Graham
  3. Frank Porter Graham
  4. Hubert H. Humphrey
  5. President Lyndon B. Johnson
  6. Robert F. Kennedy
  7. The Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr.
  8. Ronald Reagan
  9. Carl Sandburg
  10. Adlai Stevenson
  11. John Steinbeck
  12. Anita Stewart Brown