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Henry Woodfin Grady (May 24, 1850 – December 23, 1889) was an American journalist and orator who helped reintegrate the states of the Confederacy into the Union after the American Civil War. Grady encouraged the industrialization of the postbellum South, which Grady referred to as "The New South."
Grady Memorial Hospital was founded in 1890 and opened in 1892, as an outgrowth of the Atlanta Benevolent Home. It is named for Henry W. Grady, an Atlanta Constitution journalist and later owner who became a major force in Georgia politics and advocated for a public city hospital. At the time of opening, the hospital officially had 14 rooms.
New South, New South Democracy or New South Creed is a slogan in the history of the American South first used after the American Civil War.Reformers used it to call for a modernization of society and attitudes, to integrate more fully with the United States as a whole, reject the economy and traditions of the Old South, and the slavery-based plantation system of the prewar period.
Henry W. Grady, editor of the Atlanta Constitution, was a vocal proponent of the New South. [ 9 ] [ 10 ] Grady was an important part of the "Atlanta Ring" of prominent citizens who furthered these policies, which included fellow Atlanta Constitution editor Evan Howell and the three politicians who made up the Bourbon Triumvirate: Brown ...
A Grady reporting class in 1941. Grady's first graduate, in 1921, Lamar Trotti, became a producer of major motion pictures for 20th Century Fox. He received an Academy Award for Writing Original Screenplay in 1945 for Wilson. The second graduate, in 1922, John Eldridge Drewry, became the school's longest serving director and dean (1932–69 ...
Henry Francis Grady (February 12, 1882 – September 14, 1957) was an American economist, businessman and diplomat. He was a dean at the University of California (1928 to 1937), and a business executive (1941 to 1947).
The Henry W. Grady statue is a monumental statue of Henry W. Grady in Atlanta, Georgia, United States.Built by Alexander Doyle in 1891, the statue lies at the intersection of Marietta Street and Forsyth Street in downtown Atlanta and was unveiled shortly after Grady's death in 1889.
Grady County is a county located in the U.S. state of Oklahoma. As of the 2020 census, the population was 54,795. [1] Its county seat is Chickasha. [2] It was named for Henry W. Grady, an editor of the Atlanta Constitution and southern orator. [3] Grady County is part of the Oklahoma City, OK Metropolitan Statistical Area.