Paul Good, a television and print journalist known for his coverage of the civil rights movement, has died. He was 75 and lived in Westport, Conn.
He died of a stroke Jan. 23, said his daughter, Regan.
Mr. Good was best known for his reporting from the South in the 1960s, first for ABC News and later as a freelance newspaper and magazine writer. He wrote several books on race relations, including “The American Serfs: A Report on Poverty in the Rural South” (1968); “The Trouble I’ve Seen: White Journalist/Black Movement” (1975); and a novel set in the South, “Once to Every Man” (1970).
Born in Brooklyn, N.Y., in 1929, he briefly attended Brown University and Boston University in the 1940s before going to work as a journalist, first as a rewrite editor on The New York World-Telegram and Sun, and later as a news writer, editor and producer at NBC. In 1960, he joined ABC, where he was the Latin American bureau chief and the Southern bureau chief, based in Atlanta.
In 1964, Mr. Good left ABC to focus on advocacy journalism. He interviewed many of the principal figures in the civil rights movement, including Martin Luther King Jr. In addition to magazine articles, he also wrote two monographs for the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, “Cycle to Nowhere” (1968) and “Cairo, Illinois: Racism at Floodtide” (1973).
