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Young Carl Rowan has done well since he left his home town of McMinnville, Tenn. eight years ago. He won a Navy V12 scholarship, got one of the few Navy commissions given to Negroes, took a master's degree at the University of Minnesota and went to work as a reporter for the Minneapolis morning Tribune (circ. 185,500). Two months ago, Newshawk Rowan persuaded his editor to let him make a 6,000-mile tour by bus, train and rented cars of 13 Southern states for a series of stories. Last week, the Tribune began front-paging...
Knowing the Rules. Rowan started his tour at McMinnville (pop. 7,599), and found it little changed. The drugstore would still not serve him water in a glass, gave him a paper cup. Negro schoolchildren could still get books from the public library only by sending their teacher for them. But there were a few differences. Amid the shanties of "Niggertown" were rows of neat new houses which Negro veterans had built, with federal...
...knowing what rules he had to obey, Rowan managed to stay out of trouble. He dressed well in Tennessee, knowing that good clothes bring a Negro better treatment that far north. But when he got to some of the small towns in the Deep South, he changed to rough clothes. Says Rowan: "I knew if I didn't, they would think I was uppity...
...forgot himself only once. In Macon, Ga., unable to buy a newspaper in the colored waiting room, he crossed over to the white side to get one. The agent, cursing, ran out to warn him back-and Rowan returned his curses. When the agent ran to the telephone, Rowan, fearing that there might be trouble, fled from town by taxicab...
Elizabeth Rowan knew how to love. She loved everyone simply for what he was: her husband for a cold, frightened man who dared not risk feeling much for anyone, her sister for a soul-sick shrew who could not control her bad feeling for everyone, her priest for a muddled half-innocent who did not yet know what he really felt about anything except religion. Almost all the people Elizabeth knew dreaded her love as much as they wanted it. Her husband once stormed at her: "I know there are times when it's worse than hating to love...