Flashback Friday (Way, Way, Back): Harvard’s First Black Student Treasurer
From Jet Magazine, 1952
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Biographical Notes: A graduate of New York’s Fieldston School, Clifford Alexander, Jr. completed his B.A. at Harvard in 1955. He went on to earn a law degree from Yale (1958). He served as an attorney and advisor on the White House staff from 1964 – 1967, before becoming the director of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commision (until 1969). He served as the Secretary of the Army under the Carter Administration.
Today Alexander serves on the Board of Governor’s of the U.S. Stock exchange and sits on the boards of a number of U.S. corporations. He is the father of Elizabeth Alexander, the Yale University English professor chosen to compose and read the inaugural poem for the swearing in of Pres. Barack Obama, on January 20, 2009.
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Posted in African American Students, African Americans, Black History, Black Students, Current Events, Harvard University, Higher Education, race
November 1st, 2009 at 10:07 pm
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Michele
November 3rd, 2009 at 10:48 am
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