14 Facts About Joanne Grant

Joanne Grant was an African-American journalist and Communist activist.

Joanne Grant was a reporter for the National Guardian, where she covered the American Civil Rights Movement in the American South in the 1960s.

Joanne Grant was the author of three books about the era and the director of a documentary about Ella Baker.

Joanne Grant was born on March 30,1930, in Utica, New York.

Joanne Grant's father was white and her mother was mixed race.

Joanne Grant began her career in public relations in New York City.

Joanne Grant visited China alongside 56 other Americans, even though US citizens were not allowed to visit the communist nation at the time.

Joanne Grant became a reporter for the National Guardian, a radical leftist newspaper, in the 1960s.

Joanne Grant covered the American Civil Rights Movement, and she wrote about her encounters with blacks in small towns across Alabama, Mississippi and Georgia.

Joanne Grant served as the news director of WBAI, a left-wing radio station, in 1965.

Joanne Grant wrote, directed and produced Fundi: The Story of Ella Baker, a documentary about civil rights leader Ella Baker, in 1981.

Joanne Grant was the author of three books about the Civil Rights Movement.

Joanne Grant's third book, Ella Baker: Freedom Bound, was a biography of Ella Baker.

Joanne Grant died on January 9,2005, in Manhattan, New York City.