Joanne Grant

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Joanne Grant
Born(1930-03-30)March 30, 1930
Utica, New York, U.S.A.
DiedJanuary 9, 2005(2005-01-09) (aged 74)
Manhattan, New York City, U.S.A.
Alma materSyracuse University
Occupation(s)Journalist, activist
Political partyCommunist Party USA[1]
SpouseVictor Rabinowitz
Children1 son, 1 daughter
RelativesLouis M. Rabinowitz (father-in-law)

Joanne Grant (March 30, 1930 – January 9, 2005) was an African-American journalist and Communist activist. She was a reporter for the

African-American studies classes.[2]

Early life

Joanne Grant was born on March 30, 1930, in Utica, New York.[3][2][4] Her father was white and her mother was mixed race.[3] As a result, she was light-skinned.[3][4]

Grant graduated from Syracuse University, with a bachelor's degree in journalism.[3][2][4]

Career

Grant began her career in public relations in New York City.[3] Meanwhile, she attended the 6th World Festival of Youth and Students in Moscow, Soviet Union in 1957, alongside 140 other Americans.[3] She also visited China alongside 56 other Americans, even though US citizens were not allowed to visit the communist nation at the time.[3] She also visited India, Africa and Cuba.[3] Upon her return to New York City, she served as an assistant to civil rights leader W. E. B. Du Bois.[3] On February 3, 1960, she was named before the House Un-American Activities Committee as a member of the Communist Party USA.[1]

Grant became a reporter for the National Guardian, a radical leftist newspaper, in the 1960s.[3][2][4] She covered the American Civil Rights Movement, and she wrote about her encounters with blacks in small towns across Alabama, Mississippi and Georgia.[3] She wrote about lynching in the American South.[3] Meanwhile, she became a member of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee.[3][2]

Grant served as the news director of

London Film Festival.[3][2]

Grant was the author of three books about the Civil Rights Movement. The first book, Black Protest, was published in 1968.

Columbia University protests of 1968.[2] Her third book, Ella Baker: Freedom Bound, was a biography of Ella Baker.[2]

Personal life and death

Grant married Victor Rabinowitz,[3][4] the son of businessman and philanthropist Louis M. Rabinowitz. They had a son, Mark, and a daughter, Abby.[3]

Grant died on January 9, 2005, in

Columbia University Library.[5]

Works

References

  1. ^
    OCLC 29748741
    . In this case, the main factional opponents from the Trotskyist point of view were Victor Rabinowitz, a well-known leftwing lawyer with the firm Boudin and Rabinowitz, and a young activist named Joanne Grant, then a staff writer for the National Guardian, who on 3 February 1960, had been named as a member of the Harlem Youth section of the CPUSA before the House Un-American Activities Committee.
  2. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l "Joanne Grant, 74; Chronicled the Early Civil Rights Movement". The Los Angeles Times. January 16, 2005. Retrieved August 30, 2016.
  3. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t Simon, John J. (January 26, 2005). "Joanne Grant". The Guardian. Retrieved August 30, 2016.
  4. ^ a b c d e f Bayot, Jennifer (January 15, 2005). "Joanne Grant, 74; Documented Grassroots Efforts on Civil Rights". The New York Times. Retrieved August 30, 2016.
  5. ^ "Joanne Grant research files, 1963-1968". Columbia University Libraries Archival Section. Columbia University. Retrieved August 30, 2016.

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