Jack Nelson, RIP

I met Nelson years ago at an Atlanta Press Club meeting at Manuel's Tavern. Nelson was their flogging his new book on the civil rights movement. Later in the program the Georgia flag was to be debated. Nelson took the opportunity to say the "Stars and Bars" needed to be removed, which set the SCV members into a tizzy. One bearded old rebel charged the lectern where Nelson looked horrified.
I met him later and he was very gracious, particularly after he learned I had lived in the Klan hotbed of Laurel, Miss. for awhile. Here's the LA Times story about his death.