Английская Википедия:Aurelius Southall Scott
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Aurelius Southall Scott (January 26, 1901 – June 28, 1978) was an American educator and newspaper editor. Scott made national headlines in 1946, when he ran for public office in Georgia; he was arrested and institutionalized to force an end to his campaign.
Early life
Aurelius Southall Scott was born in Edwards, Mississippi,[1] one of the nine children of the Rev. William Alexander Scott and Emmeline Southall Scott.[2][3] His father was clergyman and publisher; his mother was a teacher and a typesetter in her husband's publishing business.[4][5] He attended Morehouse College, where he played football and was a member of the debate team, before graduating in 1925.[6] He earned a master's degree at Ohio State University.[7]
Career
Education and publishing
Scott taught at Bethune-Cookman College[8] and West Virginia State University.[1] Scott's brother W. A. Scott Jr. founded the Atlanta Daily World newspaper in 1928;[9] when W. A. Scott Jr. was killed in 1934,[10] his brothers fought over the family's publishing business.[11] Aurelius S. Scott was editor of the Birmingham World newspaper, until another brother, Cornelius A. Scott, fired him after a salary disagreement.[12]
In 1961, Aurelius S. Scott founded the University of Love, an Atlanta-based institute.[13]
Politics and institutionalization
In 1946, Scott ran for Fulton County coroner.[14][15] Fearing that he might become the first black elected official in Georgia since Reconstruction,[16] his white opponents and others (including his brother, editor Cornelius A. Scott) pressured him to withdraw as a candidate.[17][18] When he refused to withdraw,[19] his residency qualification was challenged,[20] and he was arrested, possibly[21] with his brother's cooperation.[22][23] Aurelius Scott reacted violently to the arrest,[24] and was institutionalized at a mental hospital in Nashville, Tennessee,[25] effectively ending his campaign.[26] [27]
Scott's family,[28] the NAACP, the National Urban League, and the American Civil Liberties Union all protested Scott's removal from the ballot and involuntary commitment.[29] "He has done his people great harm," declared the editors of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, "apparently out of a desire, by no means confined to the Negro race, for publicity, or notoriety."[30] "Criticism should be aimed at the forces facing Scott rather than at him," commented the National Urban League's Lester B. Granger.[31]
Personal life
Scott married fellow professor Mazie O. Tyson in 1928;[32] they ran a summer camp together in Ohio, and were on the faculty together at Bethune-Cookman College,[7] before they separated in the 1930s. He married again in 1943, to Ruth Commons.[33] Scott died in July 1978, aged 77 years.[1]
References
External links
- Шаблон:Find a Grave
- Thomas Aiello, The Grapevine of the Black South: The Scott Newspaper Syndicate in the Generation Before the Civil Rights Movement (University of Georgia Press 2018). Шаблон:ISBN
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- ↑ 1,0 1,1 1,2 "Atlantans Mourn Death of Aurelius S. Scott, 77" Jet (July 27, 1978): 56.
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- ↑ 7,0 7,1 The Wildcat (Bethune-Cookman College 1930): 17.
- ↑ Bethune-Cookman University, The Advocate, Catalogue, Edition of 1930-31 (1930): 12.
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