Scope and Contents The George Johnston Collection consists of articles, notes, photos, news clippings and letters about his effort to establish a labor union at the Swift Manufacturing Company in Columbus in 1946-47. The collection also includes both a formal memoir and an informal one. It offers detailed accounts not only of his union organizing activities, but an unvarnished, humane, clear picture of what life was like in Columbus,Georgia among mill workers, the Afro-American community, and other groups not...

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This collection consists of a newspaper clipping named the winner of the 1953 Tucker Press Award as being Richard Haldeman, the sports editor of the Columbus High School paper. He also received a portable typewriter and a personal letter from Nunnally Johnson, the journalist and Hollywood screenwriter.