- Carl T. Rowan, Minneapolis journalist, 1971: "One of the glaring symptoms of this society's deepening sickness is that it can go for months, shrugging off the murders of black protesters and demonstrators — only to become aroused when National Guardsmen gun down four middle-class white youngsters."
- Carl T. Rowan was a prominent Black journalist who put himself through college, worked for a number of Minneapolis papers, covered the civil rights struggle, served in gov't during both the Kennedy and Johnson administrations, and later wrote a nationally-syndicated column for the Chicago Sun-Times.Jan 31, 2026 22:04
