Rowan, Carl

Rowan, Carl

▪ American journalist
in full  Carl Thomas Rowan 
born August 11, 1925, Ravenscroft, Tennessee, U.S.—d. September 23, 2000, Washington, D.C.

      American journalist, writer, and radio and television commentator, who was one of the first African American officers in the U.S. Navy during World War II.

      After serving as a communications officer in the navy, he earned a degree in mathematics from Oberlin (Ohio) College (B.A., 1947) and studied journalism at the University of Minnesota (M.A., 1948). Rowan next joined the staff of the Minneapolis Tribune, where he worked as a copy editor and in 1950 became one of the country's first African American reporters at a major daily newspaper. In 1954 he participated in an educational exchange program sponsored by the U.S. Department of State, delivering lectures in India, Pakistan, and Southeast Asia. Rowan broke colour barriers at the U.S. Department of State when he served as a deputy assistant secretary of state (1961–63) in the administration of President John F. Kennedy and as ambassador to Finland (1963–64) and director of the U.S. Information Agency (1964–65). From 1965 Rowan wrote newspaper columns, usually concerned with race relations, that were syndicated to 60 newspapers thrice weekly.

      He was also a panelist on the weekly television show Inside Washington (originally Agronsky and Company). Between 1967 to 1996 Rowan authored eight books, including South of Freedom (1952), his reflections on life in the southern United States in the years leading up to the civil rights movement; Wait Till Next Year: The Life Story of Jackie Robinson (1960); and Dream Makers, Dream Breakers: The World of Justice Thurgood Marshall (1993), a biography of the first African American U.S. Supreme Court justice.

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