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Rowan, Carl Thomas was born on August 11, 1925 in Ravenscroft, Tennessee, United States. Son of Thomas David and Johnnie (Bradford) Rowan.
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From both the individual's point of view and that of the nation, this book is an account of racial struggles, from the Depression to today. In this memoir, the author tells how he rose from poverty-stricken origins in McMinnville, Tennessee, to life at the forefront of social change.
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( In 1951, Carl Rowan, a young African American journalis...)
In 1951, Carl Rowan, a young African American journalist from Minneapolis, journeyed six thousand miles through the South to report on the reality of everyday life for blacks in the region. He sought out the hot spots of racial tension-including Columbia, Tennessee, the scene of a 1946 race riot, and Birmingham, Alabama, which he found to be a brutally racist city-and returned to the setting of his more personal trials: McMinnville, Tennessee, his boyhood home. In this "balance sheet of American race relations," Rowan plots the racial mood of the South and describes simply but vividly the discrimination he encountered daily at hotels, restaurants, and railroad stations, on trains and on buses. Originally published in 1952 and long out of print, South of Freedom is a first-rate account of what it was like to live as a second-class citizen, to experience the segregation, humiliation, danger, stereotypes, economic exploitation, and taboos that were all part of life for African Americans in the 1940s and 1950s. For this edition, Douglas Brinkley provides a new introduction, incorporating recent interviews with Rowan to place the work in the context of its time. An engaging, disturbing look at the opinions of the time on the "Negro problem," Rowan's tales of travel in the South under Jim Crow are especially valuable today as a means of seeing how far we have advanced-and fallen short-in forty-five years. "A factual, personal, excellently written and very moving story….Rowan covers the South, finding all degrees of prejudice from humiliating annoyances, through segregation in its various forms and degrees, all the way to outright manifestation of hatred and fear." -- San Francisco Chronicle
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A prize-winning journalist draws upon his forty-year friendship with Marshall, as well as hours of interviews with the justice, to chronicle Marshall's remarkable life, discussing his youth, his tenure on the court, and his decisions. 50,000 first printing. $50,000 ad/promo. Tour.
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Wait Till Next Year is the inside story of one of the most dramatic personalities of our time and a re-creation of many of the most exciting moments in modern baseball. If nothing else had counted but hits, runs and errors, Jackie Robinson wouldn't have had many problems during his years as a major figure in the sports world. But his great ability as a player was often over-shadowed by the fact that he was the first Negro in major league baseball. He was - and still is - a man of burning pride and, above all, courage. He is a man who plays to win, on and off the baseball diamond. Jackie Robinson was born in a share-croppers cabin in Georgia. He first won national fame as a college and basketball star at U.C.L.A. And later played in the Negro Baseball leagues. Then, at twenty-six backed by Branch Ricky's tough support, he joined the Brooklyn Dodgers organization. During his controversial record-breaking years with the Dodgers – and the important years since his retirement from baseball in 1956 – he has fought constantly for Negro equality and an end to racial antagonism and discrimination. WAIT TILL NEXT YEAR then is much more than a narrative of Jackie Robinson's brilliant sports career. The whole story is here, including the problems that confronted his mother and his wife and children, and the dramatic scenes when Robinson refused to submit to prejudice in the Army, in housing for his family, in baseball training camps. Robinson himself describes for the reader some of these crisis in life, and his wife speaks of the events which especially affected her. Carl Rowan one of the country's finest reporters has written this biography of a great athlete with warmth, sympathy and full awareness of its value as a spirited American document.
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A prize winning reporter's first-hand account in 1956 of the racial, political and economic forces at work beneath the turmoil in India, Pakistan, and Southeast Asia.
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Rowan, Carl Thomas was born on August 11, 1925 in Ravenscroft, Tennessee, United States. Son of Thomas David and Johnnie (Bradford) Rowan.
Student, Tennessee State University, 1943. Student, Washburn University, 1944. Bachelor of Arts in Math, Oberlin College, 1947.
Doctor of Literature, Oberlin College, 1962. Master of Arts in Journalism, University Minnesota, 1948. Doctor of Literature, Simpson College, 1957.
Doctor of Literature, Hamline University, 1958. Doctor of Literature, College Wooster, 1968. Doctor of Literature, Drexel Institute of Technology, 1969.
Doctor of Humane Letters, Washburn University, 1964. Doctor of Humane Letters, Talladega College, 1965. Doctor of Humane Letters, St. Olaf College, 1966.
Doctor of Humane Letters, Knoxville College, 1966. Doctor of Humane Letters, Rhode Island College, 1970. Doctor of Humane Letters, University Maine, 1971.
Doctor of Humane Letters, American University, 1980. Doctor of Laws, Howard University, 1964. Doctor of Laws, Alfred University, 1964.
Doctor of Laws, Temple University, 1964. Doctor of Laws, Atlanta University, 1965. Doctor of Laws, Allegheny College, 1966.
Doctor of Laws, Colby College, 1968. Doctor of Laws, Clark University, 1971. D. Public Administration, Morgan State College, 1964.
Copywriter, Minneapolis Tribune, 1948-1950; staff writer, Minneapolis Tribune, 1950-1961; deputy assistant secretary State for public affairs, Department of State, 1961-1963; United States ambassador to Finland, Helsinki, 1963-1964; director, United States Information Agency, Washington, 1964-1965; syndicated columnist, News American Syndicate (formerly Field Syndicate) now panelist, Inside Washington, Washington, District of Columbia now syndicated columnist, King Features, New York, since 1965.
(A prize-winning journalist draws upon his forty-year frie...)
( In 1951, Carl Rowan, a young African American journalis...)
(In 1951, Carl Rowan, a young African American journalist ...)
(Wait Till Next Year is the inside story of one of the mos...)
(A prize winning reporter's first-hand account in 1956 of ...)
(From both the individual's point of view and that of the ...)
(From both the individual's point of view and that of the ...)
(1951 account of racism encountered in the South by an Afr...)
(Vintage (1960) autobiography of the major league baseball...)
(United States History, Blacks, South Racism, 1955)
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Married Vivien Louise Murphy, August 2, 1950. Children: Barbara, Carl Thomas, Geoffrey.