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Carl Rowan was born in 1925 in the southern city of Ravenscroft, Tennessee. His family was very poor.    
Growing up, Carl had very little hope for any change. There were not many jobs for blacks in the South.     Racial tensions were high. Laws were enforced to keep blacks and white separate.
It was a teacher who urged Carl to make something of himself.     She urged him to write as much as possible. She would even get books for him because blacks were banned from public libraries.
Carl entered Tennessee State College in 1942. Carl Rowan did so well in college that he was chosen by the United States navy to become one of the first fifteen black navy officers. In 1948, Carl Rowan became a reporter. He was one of the first black reporters to write for a major daily newspaper. As a young reporter, he covered racial tensions in the South of the USA and the war in the Middle East. He also reported from Europe, India and other parts of Asia.     In 1987, Carl Rowan created a program called "Project Excellence", which rewards black students who do well in school.
Carl Rowan died on September 23, 2000, in Washington, D.C. During the last years of his life, he suffered from diabetes and heart problems.    He worked until the end of his life.

A．The schools were not good.

B．He won several major reporting awards.

C．He said that experience changed his life.

D．But he never let bad things slow him down.

E. Bessie Taylor Gwynn taught him to believe he could be a poet or a writer.
F. The Rowan family had no electricity, no running water, no telephone and no radio.
G. The program provided millions of dollars to help African-American students for college.