Rivera, Alex
- Biography:
- Alex Rivera was an African American photojournalist. He was born in Greensboro, North Carolina, in 1913. Rivera became a student at Howard University in the early 1930s but had to leave school to work during the Great Depression. It was during these years that Rivera first began to work as a photojournalist in Washington, D. C. His coverage of Marian Anderson's concert at the Lincoln Memorial was the first major event he covered. In the late 1930s, Rivera returned to North Carolina to finish his education at North Carolina Central College. During World War II, Rivera worked for Naval Intelligence in Norfolk, Virginia. Shortly thereafter, he began to work for the Pittsburgh Courier, covering events in North Carolina, South Carolina, and Virginia. As a photojournalist for the Courier, Rivera covered such events as the Willie Earle lynching in South Carolina, the Isaiah Nixon lynching in Georgia, and the school desegregation cases of the 1950s. In 1957 he traveled to African with Richard Nixon. Rivera worked at North Carolina Central College in the late 1960s and 1970s.--From Oral Histories of the American South biography.
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