C. Gerald Fraser
American journalist (1925–2015)
Charles Gerald Fraser (July 30, 1925 – December 9, 2015) was an American journalist, best known for his long service (1967–1991) at The New York Times, having begun his journalistic career at the New York Amsterdam News in 1952. He was described by journalist and sociologist Thom Blair as "a citizen journalist inside the mainstream press".
Biography
Early years and education
He was born as Charles Gerald Fraser Jr. in Boston, Massachusetts, on July 30, 1925, to parents who had migrated to the United States from the Caribbean. His father, who was a cook, came from Guyana, and his mother, a seamstress, from Jamaica.
Fraser earned a bachelor's degree in economics in 1949 from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where he worked on the student newspaper. He went on to obtain a master's degree at the New School for Social Research, in New York.
Career
From 1952 to 1956, Fraser worked as a reporter with the New York Amsterdam News. There, as Herb Boyd notes, "he covered everything from crime, housing integration, social affairs, economic issues, civil rights, education and labor. When there was a paucity of African-American teachers in the New York school system, Fraser’s front page story in 1955 illuminated their plight.
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