Grandmother qualifies to run for governor of Georgia

Associated Press · July 3, 1954

Atlanta -- Mrs. Grace W. Thomas, 44-year-old grandmother and local attorney, talks to reporters after she qualified to run for governor of Georgia on an anti-segregation platform. She is ninth candidate to qualify for Democratic primary. The other, all men, are pledged to resist U.S.Supreme Court decision outlawing racial segregation in public schools. Mrs.Thomas told the newsmen she would work "toward orderly compliance with Supreme Court decisions and to seek unity in working out our problems." She has 2 daughters and a 2-year-old grandson.