ABSTRACT
George Samuel Schuyler was born in Providence, Rhode Island, and was educated in the public schools of Syracuse, New York. His early years were spent with the United States Army, and in 1923 he joined the editorial staff of The Messenger, a monthly published by A. Philip Randolph. In 1926 he joined the editorial staff of The Pittsburgh Courier. From 1937 to 1944 he was business manager of the Crisis. In 1931 Schuyler acted as special correspondent for The New York Evening Post and associated newspapers which were investigating the charges of slavery in Liberia. He also participated in an investigation of labour conditions on the Mississippi Flood Control Project for the N.A.A.C.P. He covered the first Negro Conference in Brazil and was a delegate to the Congress for Cultural Freedom in Berlin in 1950.
