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Charlotte Spears

Grady Alumni weigh in on possible name change

We should be proud of Henry Grady and his namesake

William Hedgepeth, Former senior editor for LOOK magazine as well as a former editor at other national and international publications

Dear friends and fellow Grady-ites. I can’t tell you how happy it makes me to be writing once again for The Southerner for the first time since I was a humor columnist back in 1959 — or what is now considered prehistoric times — before graduating to national and international publications. But my subject today is far from humorous, for it seriously involves us all: the name by which our school...

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Carol Carter, Founding staff member and former editor of Atlanta Business Chronicle

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Grady must change its name if it wants to represent the community

“The supremacy of the white race of the South must be maintained forever and the domination of the negro race resisted at all points and at all hazards — because the White race is the superior race . . .” -Henry W. Grady (1888) These are among the first words I read while conducting research on my high school’s namesake in 2003. I wanted the name to change right then, and I regret not making...

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