The Boston Globe, May 24th, 1990
As a congressman from the Deep South in the 1950s and '60s, Carl A. Elliott stood tall on the important social issues of that era: civil rights and federally funded education. He paid an exorbitant price for his principles, suffering political defeat and financial destitution. Until Boston Globe reporter Wil Haygood recounted Elliott's tale of courage and repudiation in a story in February 1989, he was a forgotten man, dispossessed of his home and living in penury in Jasper, Ala. In naming him the first recipient of The John F. Kennedy Profile in Courage award, the Kennedy Library Foundation h...
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