Larry Still, 78, news reporter and teacher, dies in Washington

Jet, Dec 3, 2001

Lawrence A. Still, a reporter who covered racial attacks in the South for JET Magazine during the '60s and later became a Howard University communications professor, died in Washington. He was 78.

Few writers were as prominent in the past 50 years in civil rights as this native of St. Louis. After he received his education at Iowa State and St. Louis universities, he turned to a career of journalism.

He served as a JET Magazine editor in Chicago and covered many civil rights stories in the South. Later he worked for the Afro American Newspapers and the Washington Star Newspaper.

He became the chairman of Howard University journalism school and the assistant dean. Later, he was director of information for the U.S. Employment Service and information deputy director of the President's Committee on Civil Disorders.

He was a past president of the Capital Press Club in Washington and a member of many press organizations.

Survivors include his wife of 52 years, Cecilia, and three daughters, Cheryl Clarke of Alexandria, VA, and Marsha Harps and Laurene Still of Atlanta.