Jambo Toyin,
Richard was also in Ibadan;and ate suya at Ahmadu Bello University under our supervision to guarantee the safety of a novice.
We salute him, as is said, ''a life well spent''
Okello
On Saturday, December 20, 2014 4:45 PM, Toyin Falola <toyinfalola@austin.utexas.edu> wrote:
Richard Joseph, Northwestern's John Evans Professor of International History and Politics, will be honored by his alma mater, Dartmouth College, with one of the Martin Luther King Jr. Social Justice Awards on January 29, 2015. Joseph will be conferred with the Lester B. Granger Lifetime Achievement Award. Granger, Dartmouth Class of 1918, was an African-American who served for 20 years as Executive Director of the Urban League. He also served under President Franklin D. Roosevelt advising the Navy and received the Medal for Merit from President Harry S. Truman.
Joseph was a 1965 graduate of Dartmouth and a professor of Government in the 1980s. His career as a scholar-activist began with the creation and direction of the Negro Applications Encouragement Program and a local tutorial program during his junior year. On behalf of the student government, he supervised the campus visit and lecture by Malcolm X just weeks before the black leader's assassination on February 21, 1965. For his work promoting civil rights and peace and democracy in Africa, Joseph was one of 50 Dartmouth alumni awarded the "Presidential Medal for Outstanding Leadership and Achievement" in 1991.
In a related vein, he will give the keynote address – "America from Selma to Ferguson: Reflections of a Scholar-Activist" – at a meeting of the Association for the Study of African-American Life and History in St. Petersburg, Florida, on February 27.The ASALH was founded by the pioneering black historian, Dr. Carter G. Woodson, in 1915. Woodson also initiated Black History Month. Joseph will draw on a half-century of engagement as an activist scholar. His early American experiences include volunteer work during the Selma to Montgomery March, 1965, and with the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party in Washington, DC, 1965, and with the leader, Mrs. Fannie Lou Hamer, in Mississippi, 1967.
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