George Schuyler Research Paper

George S. Schuyler, born in Providence, Rhode Island, February 25, 1895. Schuyler died August 31, 1977 in New York, New York. A Print Journalist by profession, Schuyler was known as a satirist, critic and author (Judge, Mark Gauvreau, “Justice to George S. Schuyler”). Schuyler’s parent’s teachings of “work, self-reliance, and determination” was instrumental in his becoming “one of this country’s most eminent black journalists” (Judge). According to Schuyler, his descendants were “free as far back as the Revolutionary War.” Growing up with that knowledge made Schuyler a self-confident man (Peplow, Michael W., George S. Schuyler). Schuyler and his wife Josephine E. Lewis, whom he married in 1928 had one child, Philippa, in 1932. Philippa was