Biography

He took time off from his studies at Howard University to devote full time to the Civil Rights movement, including voter registrations and sit-ins. Two years later, he transferred to the University of Wisconsin, where he studied history and sociology. After graduate school at Harvard, he worked in the federal and DC governments before becoming a consultant.

He took part in the Freedom Rides of 1961. He was arrested in Jackson, Mississippi and spent two months in jail, a prison farm, and the state penitentiary.