Harry Golden
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Harry Lewis Golden (né Harry Goldhirsch) (May 6, 1902–October 2, 1981) was born in the Jewish ghetto in what is now Mikulintsy, Ukraine, then part of Austria-Hungary. He became a writer and newspaper publisher in Charlotte, North Carolina.
In 1904 his father, Leib Goldhirsch, emigrated to Winnipeg, only to move the family to New York City the next year. Harry became a stockbroker but lost his job in the 1929 crash. Convicted of mail fraud, Golden served five years in a Federal prison at Atlanta, Georgia. In 1941, he moved to Charlotte, where he wrote about, and spoke out against, racial segregation and the Jim Crow laws of the time as a reporter for the Charlotte Labor Journal and The Charlotte Observer. From 1942 to 1968, Golden published The Carolina Israelite as a forum, not just for his political views (including his satirical "Vertical Negro plan"), but also observations and reminisces of his boyhood in New York's Lower East Side. He traveled broadly: in 1960 to speak to Jews in West Germany and again to cover the 1961 trial of Adolf Eichmann in Israel for Life. In 1974, he received a presidential pardon from Richard Nixon.
His books include three collections of essays from the Israelite and a biography of his friend, poet Carl Sandburg. One of those collections, Only in America, was the basis for a play by Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee. He also maintained a correspondence with Billy Graham.
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