Carl Rowan
Overview
 
Carl Thomas Rowan was an American
United States
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 government official, journalist and author. Rowan was a nationally-syndicated op-ed columnist for the Washington Post and the Chicago Sun-Times
Chicago Sun-Times
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He was one of the most prominent black journalists of the 20th century.
Carl Rowan was born in Ravenscroft
Ravenscroft, Tennessee
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, Tennessee
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, and was raised in McMinnville
McMinnville, Tennessee
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, in that state. Rowan was determined to get a good education. He graduated from Bernard High School in 1942 as class president and valedictorian.
Quotations

(President Nixon,) in the face of a vote to impeach he might try, as "commander-in-chief", to use military forces to keep himself in power.

October 26, 1973 Washington Star article entitled "Has President Nixon Gone Crazy?"

We must reverse this psychology (of needing guns for home defense). We can do it by passing a law that says anyone found in possession of a handgun except a legitimate officer of the law goes to jail- period!

1981 column.

You don't really talk about it in terms of the U.N., you talk about it in terms of the United States and the Soviet Union. If you cannot, by diplomacy, bring the Soviet Union into an alliance with the U.S. to stop this situation it is not going to be stopped.

Inside Washington, March 6, 1993.

Don't count out Marian Wright Edelman, because there is talk that President Clinton may want to shock the nation by putting a real black on the Supreme Court.

Inside Washington, March 20, 1993.

Unless Gingrich and Dole and the Republicans say, ‘Am I inflaming a bunch of nuts?’, you know we're going to have some more events (like the Oklahoma City bombing). I am absolutely certain the harsher rhetoric of the Gingriches and the Doles … creates a climate of violence in America.

April 25, 1995 Washington Post.

 
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