Occupation: Retired

Professional Profile:
Born and raised in Neptune, NJ. After graduating from Neptune High School and completing a year at Monmouth College, West Long Branch, NJ, served two years in the Armed Forces. In 1945, received a basketball scholarship from Morgan State University, Baltimore, MD. Earned a B.S. degree from Morgan in 1948 and in 1951 a Masters Degree from Columbia University in New York.

From 1951 t 1969, served as an engineer at Fort Monmouth and in 1970, until retirement in 1985, was selected the Commanding General as a staff member in the position of Chief, Office of Equal Opportunity.

Based upon the filing of a housing bias civil suit and after a struggle fo three years through the state system and the courts, in 1963, the New Jersey Supreme Court issued a decision ordering the developer of the Asbury Gables in Neptune to build and sell a house.

As Chair of the Education Committee and a former President of the Asbury-Neptune Branch of the NAACP, was directly responsible for instituting in 1964 the suit filed by the branch which ended public school racial imbalance in the elementary schools in Neptune.

Some other achievements include - leading the fight for the first black teacher as a member of the faculty in Neptune High School; hiring the first black paramutual cashier at Freehold Raceway; demonstrations against the discriminatory practices of the Neptune Volunteer Fire Companies and First Aid Units; instituting a summer program at Fort Monmouth for black youth; recruiting and hiring of minorities in the Post Fire Department; and leading the struggle for equity on behalf of sanitation employees in Neptune Township.

A few past and present affiliations - PTA President, Monmouth County Head Start, Life Member NAACP, Church Trustee, Neptune Planning Board, Neptune Township Housing Authority, Omega Psi Phi Fraternity, and MURC Trustee.

Married and the father of two daughters.

Became involved with MURC for engagement in a challenge to assist others in improving the quality of life for those of the black community in the critical social and economic areas of housing, education, and employment. This has been an on-going passion.