Henry W. Grady

Henry W. Grady (May 17,1851 – December 23,1889) was a journalist and orator who did much to help reintegrate the states of the former Confederacy into the union after the American Civil War.

Grady was a part owner, an editor, and a reporter for the Atlanta Constitution, then as now a very influential newspaper. He popularized an antithesis between the “old South” which “rested everything on slavery and agriculture, unconscious that these could neither give nor maintain healthy growth,” and a “new south” – “thrilling with the consciousness of growing power and prosperity”.

In 1887 he promoted the creation in Atlanta of the Georgia Institute of Technology, a state vocational-education school.

Grady Memorial Hospital in Atlanta is named for him.