1. Vincent Lushington "Roi" Ottley was an American journalist and writer.
12 Facts About Roi Ottley
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Roi Ottley's parents were immigrants from the Caribbean island country of Grenada.
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Roi Ottley attended public schools in the city, where he excelled in basketball, baseball, and track, and in 1926 he won a track scholarship to St Bonaventure College in Allegany, New York.
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Roi Ottley later studied part-time at St John's Law School and Columbia University, both in New York City.
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Roi Ottley worked as a journalist for the Amsterdam News from 1931 to 1937.
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In 1937, Roi Ottley joined the New York City Writers' Project as an editor.
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Roi Ottley became the publicity director of national CIO War Relief Committee in 1943.
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Roi Ottley was commissioned as a lieutenant in the US Army in 1944.
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Roi Ottley interviewed important personalities like Governor Talmadge of Georgia, and Samuel Green, Grand Dragon of the Ku Klux Klan.
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Roi Ottley became the first African American to interview a pope when he met with Pope Pius XII in 1945.
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Roi Ottley later worked for the Chicago Tribune and broadcast reports for CBS and BBC radio.
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Roi Ottley died on October 2,1960, from a heart attack.