Ajc history

The Constitution was founded in 1868, when Carey Wentworth Styles, James H. Anderson, and W.A. Hemphill purchased the Atlanta Daily Opinion and renamed it.

The paper was liberal in its editorial policies from the time of Grady, although it did, under the editorship of Clark Howell, support American intervention in Cuba before the Spanish-American War of 1898.

JCRC/AJC was founded in 1937 as the Jewish Community Council of Metropolitan Detroit (Council) by a group of prominent Jewish leaders.

Participants in these extended, ethnically-focused, interviews run the gamut from feminist pioneer Congresswoman Bella Abzug to Paramount founder Adolph Zukor, last of the original Hollywood movie moguls, recorded in 1972 at the age of 99.

Perdue also will confront the same problem facing Michelle Nunn, the only big-name Democratic contender running for retiring Senator Saxby Chambliss’ seat: Not since Mack Mattingly’s victory in 1980 has a candidate without public electoral experience won a Senate seat in Georgia.

For many years a merged paper, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, was published on weekends until the two papers were fully merged in 2001.

Perdue was poached by Pillowtex, a North Carolina textile giant, in July 2002 with the goal of renewing its popular brands.

In 2006, the Council was renamed the Jewish Community Relations Council (JCRC) in order to better convey the organization’s mission.

But, by the time the chain was sold in 2007, the stock price had more than doubled and some 2,600 new stores were opened.

Perdue returned to Georgia to start a financial venture and later joined his cousin and two others to start an Atlanta-based global trading firm in April 2011.