Georgia's Governor Herman Talmadge stood on a platform outside Atlanta's Grady Memorial Hospital this week to dedicate a new wing. Around him, admiring the creamy brick and the green marble trim of the Hughes Spalding Pavilion, was a mixed audience of whites and Negroes. With pride, the governor pointed to the excellence of the $1,850,000 building as good as any of its kind in the U.S. Then Dixiecrat Talmadge, apostle of white supremacy, handed the building over to Dr. Benjamin Mays in behalf of his 200,000 fellow Negro citizens in the area. The...
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