C. Gerald Fraser

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. Fraser subsequently worked at the United Nations for several West Indian publications, prior to being hired by the New York Daily News.

Leaving The New York Times in 1991, Fraser joined Earth Times, a monthly publication campaigning on environmental affairs, where he became a senior editor.

Selected articles "SNCC Has Lost Much of Its Power to Black Panthers", Eugene Register-Guard, October 9, 1968 "Amilcar Cabral Death for A Symbol Of Hope", The New York Times, January 26, 1973. "Defiant Judge Again Backs Right to Abortion Privacy", The New York Times, June 21, 1973 "Art Farmer Finds jazz In Europe Challenging", The New York Times, August 26, 1976 "THEATER: 'Show Cause, The New York Times, December 19, 1985 "C. L. R. James, Historian, Critic And Pan-Africanist, Is Dead at 88", The New York Times, June 2, 1989 "Me, my children, Chicago and Obama", Chronicle World, November 17, 2008.