Good, Paul (Joseph), (Jr.) 1929-2005
GOOD, Paul (Joseph), (Jr.) 1929-2005
OBITUARY NOTICE— See index for CA sketch: Born March 11, 1929, in Brooklyn, NY; died of a stroke January 23, 2005, in Greenwich, CT. Journalist and author. Good was best known as a journalist who reported on the civil rights movement in the South. He attended Brown University and Boston University in the late 1940s, but left without a degree. Instead, he entered into journalism, and his first job in the field was as a rewrite man for the World Telegram & Sun in the mid-1950s. He then moved to television as an editor and writer for the National Broadcasting Company from 1958 until 1960. During the early 1960s, he worked for the American Broadcasting Company (ABC). He was a news writer and foreign and domestic correspondent at ABC, serving as Latin-American bureau chief and then as Atlanta bureau chief. Becoming interested in the civil rights movement, he decided to leave ABC to work as a freelance journalist specializing in social issues. In this capacity, he contributed to many national magazines and newspapers and interviewed such important figures as the Reverend Ralph Abernathy and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. He also published books on the subject, including The American Serfs (1968) and The Trouble I've Seen: White Journalist/Black Movement (1975), as well as a novel, Once to Every Man (1970).
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Chicago Tribune, February 11, 2005, section 3, p. 9. New York Times, February 7, 2005, p. A22.