USA Africa Dialogue Series - WONDERFUL HONOUR‹Re: Richard Joseph: Congratulations!

Richard,  A wonderful honour. 

Many congratulations. 

Many 'rode the tide' of 1960s Civil Rights campaigns. 

I was one. BU, where I was in the late 1960s-early 70s 

Was a tinder-box. 

I observed and discussed. 

I did not engage.

But you were amongst those who did engage; 

Those who were part of that tide. 

As MLK himself learned, 

That tide covered many savage rocky obstructions that 

Tore out the life of the unwitting and unwary;  

Sudden fierce undercurrents/ undertows that 

Made ready victims of those without 

Very good swimming skills. 

You clearly carry forward to this day 

The messages and the lessons 

Learned. 

The root has now become

The base. 

America now past the first hurdles, 

Struggles to move on; 

To actuate the Light 

In growing intensity that 

You through your commitment 

And determination, have helped to 

Release, realise and bring forward. 

Thank you. 

You have helped to 

Open American, and indeed 

Modern world life to the 

New Age in which we are living. 

It is an age of Inclusion, massive actuation, 

And Light. 

Darkness, together with its 

Leading principles of Exclusion/ Division/ Acquisition, 

Is being steadily and increasingly 

Forced to the margins

—Albeit not without current savage resistance from 

The 'Princes of Darkness' who are well aware of the 

Path to Oblivion that opens before them. 

The path to the future is quite clear. 

You are one of the Principal Guides. 

As for your engagement in modern Nigeria and Africa life; 

Of this it would be most helpful to be able to talk further. 

I am hopeful this may one day be possible. 

I am asking Mr Amazon to send to you a small book I wrote, 

Entitled  'Phantom Trail:  Discovering Ancient America.' 

Quite light. Travel/ History/ Archaeo. With a few core themes sown deep. 

Many Americans disliked Trail.  

Which was sad; as it was written mainly for them

—folk, who like me in my Canada youth and student days was kept 

carefully ignorant of vital/ root truths for far too long. 

I hope it may provide interest for you, 

Even gently provoke a little thought. 

Again, my congratulations Richard.  

Best wishes,  Michael v

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Date: Saturday, 20 December 2014 15:42
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Subject: Richard Joseph: Congratulations!

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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