The Week of November 12th, 2006: IN BLACK HISTORY
PHYLLIS T. GARLAND
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School mourns death of Phyllis T. Garland journalist, musician, master teacher

The faculty and staff of the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism mourn the death of their colleague and friend, Phyllis T. Garland, who died on November 7, 2006 of cancer, at age 71.

Phyl, as she was known, was the first tenured black faculty member at the journalism school, where she taught for more than three decades. In addition to her Cultural Affairs Reporting and Writing class, Garland was a Master’s Project advisor, and served as the administrator of the National Arts Journalism Program at Columbia. Phyl began her career in 1959 as a reporter and then editor for The Pittsburgh Courier. Throughout the years, she covered issues relevant to blacks, including the March on Washington, the Civil Rights Movement, discrimination in housing, education, labor, and the arts, and then the first blacks elected to public office in Mississippi. She went on to become the New York editor of Ebony magazine.

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REST IN PEACE: (R.I.P.)