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American newspaperman (1925–2000)

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Carl Rowan, 1925-2000: An Influential Newsman

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I'm Shirley Griffith. And I'm Doug Johnson with the VOA Special English program, PEOPLE IN AMERICA.  Today, we tell about the life of writer and reporter, Carl Rowan.  He was one of the most honored reporters in the United States.

Carl Rowan was known for the powerful stories that he wrote for major newspapers.  His columns were published in more than one hundred newspapers across the United States.  He was the first black newspaper columnist to have his work appear in major newspapers.

Carl Rowan called himself a newspaperman.  Yet, he was also a writer of best-selling books.  He wrote about the lives of African American civil rights leader, Reverend Martin Luther King Junior and United States Supreme Court Justice, Thurgood Marshall.

Carl Rowan also was a radio broadcaster and a popular public speaker.  For thirty years, he appeared on a weekly television show about American politics.

Carl Rowan won praise over the years for his reports about race relations in America.  He provided a public voice for poor people and minorities in America.  He influenced people in positions of power.

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Rowan, Carl T.

August 11, 1925
September 23, 2000

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Born in Ravenscroft, Tennessee, the son of a lumber worker, journalist and governmental official Carl Thomas Rowan grew up in poverty. After graduating from local schools in 1942, he saved enough money to attend Tennessee State University. While at Tennessee State, Rowan was drafted and was selected for a special program to train African-American officers in the then segregated U.S. Navy. In 1945, after completing his military service, Rowan registered at Oberlin College in Ohio; he graduated in 1947. Determined to become a journalist, he moved to Minneapolis and received an M.A. from the University of Minnesota in 1948.

That same year Rowan was hired as a copywriter by the white-owned Minneapolis Tribune and was made a reporter in 1950, becoming one of the first African-American reporters for a large urban daily newspaper. The next year Rowan toured the southern states, reporting on racial discrimination. His articles (which were collected in the book South of Freedom in 1952) won him national attention. Rowan continued as a reporter for the Tribune for ten years and won several journalism awards for his coverage of such issues as the U.S. Supreme Court's Brown v. Board of Education school desegregation case in