Mister Rowan's reports on race relations in the South interested President John F.Kennedy.

VOA: special.2009.11.01

Mister Rowan often wrote intensely about race relations.

VOA: special.2009.11.01

"Every time Americans debate the problem of states' rights, the relationship of federal power to state power -- which we are indeed having a roiling debate again -- and every time we debate not only race relations, but the very idea of what it means to be an American, multi-racial,greatly diverse society, we are debating the direct legacies of the Civil War."

VOA: special.2011.04.09