Rowan, Carl T. (Carl Thomas), 1925-2000 (Personal Name)

South of freedom, 1952.

Go South to sorrow, 1957: t.p. (Carl T. Rowan)

BGMI, Oct. 4, 2006 (Rowan, Carl T(homas) (1925-2000))

SSDI, Oct. 4, 2006 (Rowan, Carl T.; b. Aug. 11, 1925; d. Sept. 23, 2000, Washington, D.C.)

African American National Biography, accessed September 12, 2014, via Oxford African American Studies Center database: (Rowan, Carl T; Carl Thomas; federal government official, diplomat, print journalist, broadcast journalist, essayist; born 11 August 1925 in Ravenscroft, Tennessee, United States; student,Tennessee State University; commissioned as officer in the United States Navy during World War II; college degree in Mathematics from Oberlin College, Ohio, master in Journalism, University of Minnesota; won Sidney Hillman Foundation award; named Outstanding Young Man, Minneapolis Junior Chamber of Commerce (1951); first book, South of Freedom (1953); covered the Supreme Court, Brown v. Board of Education (1954); appointed assistant secretary of state for public affairs (1961); delegate to the United Nations during the Cuban missile crisis; U.S. ambassador to Finland (1963-1964); director of the U.S. Information Agency; membership in the Gridiron Club (1972); founded Project Excellence (1987); died 23 September 2000 in Washington, District of Columbia, United States, Washington Hospital Center)