Kathleen Dowdey Productions

The quarter-century from the close of World War II through the 1960s was a period of profound and often traumatic change in American race relations. Dawn's Early Light takes you inside that era, as experienced and influenced by the legendary journalist, Ralph McGill, the editor of the Atlanta Constitution.  

    Colorful, outspoken, a man of many contradictions, McGill emerged during those troubled years as the most prominent and influential Southern white opponent of racial segregation and one of America's most revered journalists. Through his eyes, we gain a window on an entire era of American history and fresh insight into the complex process of social change.  

"Clean, direct, unsentimental... through this profile we get to know the man behind the principles."

The Washington Post