Rudolph A. Pyatt Jr., a Washington Post journalist who retired in 2000 after 19 years writing a twice-weekly column on local business, has died. He was 88.
The cause was complications of dementia, said his wife, Jacqueline Pyatt.
According to The Post, “Pyatt was among an early corps of Black journalists who cracked the segregation barriers of Southern newspapers when he began his career in 1964 at his hometown publication, the Charleston (S.C.) News & Courier.