Thanks for looking that up. What was he doing at that time, then?
- 1960 (approx), graduated from Howard University law school in Washington, D.C.
- Early 1960s, worked as a clerk for Atlanta civil rights attorney Donald Hollowell
- 1962, became field secretary for the Georgia branch of the NAACP
- 1964, set up law partnership in Arkansas with civil rights lawyer, Wiley A. Barnton
- 1964, assumed directorship from Barnton of the Voter Education Project of the Southern Regional Council (credited with registering between 1,500,000 and almost 2,000,000 new black voters)
- 1960s, served on the National Advisory Commission on Selective Service and the 1966 White House Conference on Civil Rights (Johnson Administration)
- 1970, appointed executive director of the United Negro College Fund, moved to New York City
- 1971, designated the executive director of the National Urban League