Box Series.II.A.20

Scope and Content From the Collection: The collection consists of the personal and business papers of William Turner Catledge (1901-1983), graduate of Mississippi A&M College, journalist, and editor of The New York Times. Catledge was reared in Neshoba County, Mississippi, and worked for several Mississippi newspapers, the Memphis Commercial Appeal, and the Baltimore Sun before beginning his distinguished career with The New York Times in 1929. The bulk of the files date from 1945 to 1968, the period during which Catledge...