Except for a brief period, Albany Herald Editor Carlton Fletcher has been a newspaperman, working as Sports Writer/Columnist for the weekly Ocilla Star, as Sports Writer/Sports Editor with The Tifton Gazette, and as Sports Writer/Copy Editor/News Reporter/Features Editor and Editor of the paper. He has won numerous awards for sports, news, business and column writing, including a first-place Business Writing award in last year’s Georgia Press Association awards competition.
The year was 1955, and while the civil rights movement was slowly building momentum in the United States, laws such as the one enacted in Montgomery were common.
Before I get into this, let me say from the get-go that I understand that we all have bad days, that the aggravations of life can put a damper on everything that gets in our way on a given day.