Rowan was determined to get a good education. As a youth he worked hoeing grass for ten cents an hour. Rowan and was raised in McMinnville, Tennessee. He was one of five children born to Thomas David and Johnnie B. Subjects: African American History, People Terms: Media - Journalists and reporters, United States-Washington D.Carl Thomas Rowan was born Aug. Rowan is the only journalist to have won the Society of Professional Journalists’ Sigma Delta Chi medallion three years in a row. His survivors included his wife, Vivien, whom he married in 1950, and three children. Rowan, a member of Sigma Pi Phi fraternity, died on Septemat age 75. The case ended in a jury deadlock and mistrial. Rowan had been an advocate of Washington’s strict gun ban, but in this case he argued that the gun was legal and that he’d had the right to protect himself. Perhaps the only blemish on Rowan’s public image erupted in 1988, when he was accused of having shot and wounded a teenager who sneaked into the swimming pool behind his Washington, D.C. In 1987 Rowan founded a scholarship for black students that grew into a multi-million dollar program.

Rowan was a regular television commentator, and authored several books, including biographies of baseball player Jackie Robinson and Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall. He also produced radio commentaries that aired five days a week. It was published three days a week until his death in 2000. Rowan left the Federal government in 1965 to start a syndicated newspaper column. Rowan then served as a delegate to the United Nations, an ambassador to Finland, and Director of the U.S. Rowan’s reporting caught the eye of Lyndon Johnson, and led to an appointment in the State Department of the John F. His foreign correspondence covered the war over the Suez Canal in 1956, and events in Europe and Asia. to cover response to the Supreme Court desegregation ruling. Within six years he was reporting for the paper in the southern U.S. That year, Rowan got his first journalism job as a copy editor at the Minneapolis Tribune. Rowan finished Oberlin College in Ohio in 1947, and earned a master’s degree in journalism at the University of Minnesota in 1948. He was one of the first twenty black Naval officers during World War II, serving on a tanker in the Atlantic Ocean. entered World War II, Rowan signed up for a Navy program that led to an officer’s commission. Rowan worked at a tuberculosis hospital and saved money to start his undergraduate studies at Tennessee State College in 1942. Kennedy Presidential Library (AR7851-B), Public domain Rowan, White House, Washington, D.C., ApCourtesy John F.

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