Famous Nu Chapter Brothers Continued..
Brother Herb J. Wesson, Jr.
Brother Wesson is a California politician. He currently serves as a Los Angeles Councilman, representing the 10th district. He served in the State Assembly representing the 47th district from 1998 until 2004. He served as Speaker of the California State Assembly from 2002 until 2004. Brother Wesson received his undergraduate degree from Lincoln University, PA, where he pledged Alpha Phi Alpha.
Brother Franklin Williams (Diplomat)
Brother Williams, was a lawyer and civil rights leader. As an assistant to Brother Thurgood Marshall, he represented the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People [NAACP] before courts in criminal cases throughout the South. Brother Williams graduated from Lincoln University in 1941, where he pledged Alpha Phi Alpha. In 1959, Brother Williams became Assistant Attorney General in California and in 1961 the Kennedy Administration appointed him to assist Sargent Shriver in organizing the Peace Corps. As a delegate to UNESCO he championed establishment of an international counterpart to the Corps. Under President Johnson, Brother Williams became the first black representative to the United Nations Economic and Social Council and later was appointed Ambassador to Ghana, Africa. Brother Williams held many other honorable positions in his esteemed career. Brother Williams joined Omega Chapter in 1990 at the age of 72.
Brother Horace Greeley Dawson, Jr.
Brother Dawson was born in Augusta, Georgia. He was a diplomat, and served as the United States Ambassador to Botswana.
After graduation from high school, Brother Dawson attended Lincoln University in Pennsylvania for two years before being drafted into the U.S. Army, serving a two-year tour of duty in Europe and the Philippines. Brother Dawson then returned to Lincoln University to finish his studies, earning a B.A. in English in 1949. Brother Dawson went on to study English and comparative literature at Columbia University and received his M.A. the following year. During his tenure at Lincoln University, Brother Dawson pledged Alpha Phi Alpha.
Brother Dawson began his career as an English teacher at Southern University in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, where he remained three years after earning his M.A.. He then went on to teach at North Carolina Central University, where he worked as an associate professor of English and director of public relations. He also received his Ph.D. from the University of Iowa in 1961.
In 1962, Brother Dawson entered the Foreign Service, working as a cultural affairs officer in Uganda and Nigeria, and then as the United States Information Agency Director in Liberia. From 1973 to 1977, Brother Dawson held a prominent position as the director of all American information and cultural programs in Africa. Subsequently, Brother Dawson became the counselor of embassy for public affairs and the director of American information and cultural programs in the Philippines, where he remained until 1979. That year, he was named ambassador to Botswana by President Jimmy Carter. As ambassador, he worked to end apartheid in South Africa. Returning to the United States in 1983, Brother Dawson remained with the State Department until his retirement in 1989. He then joined the faculty at Howard University and was appointed director of the public affairs program. In 1993, Brother Dawson established the Ralph J. Bunche International Affairs Center at Howard, and in 1997 became the director of that program as well.
Brother Dawson is a member of the Peace Corps Advisory Board, chairman of the Selection Committee for the Franklin H. Williams Memorial Internship Program of the Council on Foreign Relations, and recently ended his term as chairman of the Association of Black American Ambassadors. Listed in mass media and international affairs. His wife, Lula Cole Dawson, a sociologist and employment specialist, died in 2004. They have two children.
Brother Dawson is a member of Alpha Phi Alpha, the first intercollegiate Greek-letter fraternity established for African Americans.[1] He is the chairman the fraternity's World Policy Council, a think tank whose purpose is to expand Alpha Phi Alpha's involvement in politics, and social and current policy to encompass international concerns.
After graduation from high school, Brother Dawson attended Lincoln University in Pennsylvania for two years before being drafted into the U.S. Army, serving a two-year tour of duty in Europe and the Philippines. Brother Dawson then returned to Lincoln University to finish his studies, earning a B.A. in English in 1949. Brother Dawson went on to study English and comparative literature at Columbia University and received his M.A. the following year. During his tenure at Lincoln University, Brother Dawson pledged Alpha Phi Alpha.
Brother Dawson began his career as an English teacher at Southern University in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, where he remained three years after earning his M.A.. He then went on to teach at North Carolina Central University, where he worked as an associate professor of English and director of public relations. He also received his Ph.D. from the University of Iowa in 1961.
In 1962, Brother Dawson entered the Foreign Service, working as a cultural affairs officer in Uganda and Nigeria, and then as the United States Information Agency Director in Liberia. From 1973 to 1977, Brother Dawson held a prominent position as the director of all American information and cultural programs in Africa. Subsequently, Brother Dawson became the counselor of embassy for public affairs and the director of American information and cultural programs in the Philippines, where he remained until 1979. That year, he was named ambassador to Botswana by President Jimmy Carter. As ambassador, he worked to end apartheid in South Africa. Returning to the United States in 1983, Brother Dawson remained with the State Department until his retirement in 1989. He then joined the faculty at Howard University and was appointed director of the public affairs program. In 1993, Brother Dawson established the Ralph J. Bunche International Affairs Center at Howard, and in 1997 became the director of that program as well.
Brother Dawson is a member of the Peace Corps Advisory Board, chairman of the Selection Committee for the Franklin H. Williams Memorial Internship Program of the Council on Foreign Relations, and recently ended his term as chairman of the Association of Black American Ambassadors. Listed in mass media and international affairs. His wife, Lula Cole Dawson, a sociologist and employment specialist, died in 2004. They have two children.
Brother Dawson is a member of Alpha Phi Alpha, the first intercollegiate Greek-letter fraternity established for African Americans.[1] He is the chairman the fraternity's World Policy Council, a think tank whose purpose is to expand Alpha Phi Alpha's involvement in politics, and social and current policy to encompass international concerns.
Brother Robert L. Carter
Brother Robert Lee Carter was born on March 11, 1917, in Careyville, Florida. While still very young, his mother moved north to Newark, New Jersey, where he was raised. Judge Carter graduated from high school at sixteen and attended Lincoln University (Pennsylvania) on a scholarship and earned his bachelor's degree in political science, and pledged Alpha Phi Alpha. He attended Howard University School of Law on a scholarship. Brother Carter graduated from Howard University School of Law in 1940. Brother Carter earned his LL.M. from Columbia Law School in 1941, after writing an influential master's thesis that would later define the NAACP's legal strategy on the right to freedom of association under the First Amendment to the United States Constitution.
Brother Carter was a co-founder of the National Conference of Black Lawyers (NCBL). He has served as a member of innumerable committees of the bar and the court, and has been associated with a very wide array of educational institutions, organizations, and foundations. He has written extensively about discrimination in the United States, particularly school segregation, and of his longtime friends and colleagues, Thurgood Marshall and Charles Hamilton Houston.
Brother Carter was a co-founder of the National Conference of Black Lawyers (NCBL). He has served as a member of innumerable committees of the bar and the court, and has been associated with a very wide array of educational institutions, organizations, and foundations. He has written extensively about discrimination in the United States, particularly school segregation, and of his longtime friends and colleagues, Thurgood Marshall and Charles Hamilton Houston.
Brother Bruce M. Wright
Brother Bruce M. Wright (September 28, 1918 – March 24, 2005) was an American jurist and served on the New York State Supreme Court. Judge Wright is also the father of Keith L.T. Wright a member of the New York State Assembly in New York, United States.
He was born in Borough of Princeton, New Jersey, and raised in Harlem, New York. Brother Bruce McMarion Wright's father was Black and his mother was white. He was awarded a scholarship to attend Princeton University in 1939, but denied admission when the university learned that he was Black. Wright was denied admission to Notre Dame on the same grounds.
Wright had no trouble entering a U.S. Army, Infantry Division. After World War II, he went AWOL, making his way to Paris, where he was befriended by Senegalese poet Leopold Senghor, who later became his country's first president. Wright’s early ambition was to become a poet and was introduced and later became a friend of Langston Hughes. Wright's first book of poetry, "From the Shaken Tower," was edited by Hughes and published in 1944. He then graduated from Lincoln University, PA (where he pledged Alpha Phi Alpha), attended Fordham University Law School, and obtained his law degree from New York University Law School.
Mayor John V. Lindsay named him to the bench in 1970. Judge Wright was critical of the judicial system and believed that race and class all too frequently determined the outcome of a trial. Appointed as the General Counsel for the Human Resources Administration in New York City, Wright served as a judge in New York's civil and criminal courts. He was elected to the New York State Supreme Court in 1982 and retired on Dec. 31, 1994.
Justice Wright spent 25 years on the bench in both criminal and civil cases, gaining a reputation as a scholarly and provocative jurist who sprinkled his opinions with literary quotations. He was the author of a 1987 book, “Black Robes, White Justice,” about the role of race in the judicial system. Wright suffered a heart attack in March 2000 and was made an honorary member of Princeton's 2001 class 65 years after being denied a scholarship because of his race.
Judge Bruce M. Wright, who denounced what he called racism in the criminal justice system and created a furor in the 1970s by setting low bail for many poor and minority suspects, died in his sleep on March 24, 2005, at his home in Old Saybrook, Connecticut at the age of 86. His wife, Elizabeth Davidson-Wright, announced his death
He was born in Borough of Princeton, New Jersey, and raised in Harlem, New York. Brother Bruce McMarion Wright's father was Black and his mother was white. He was awarded a scholarship to attend Princeton University in 1939, but denied admission when the university learned that he was Black. Wright was denied admission to Notre Dame on the same grounds.
Wright had no trouble entering a U.S. Army, Infantry Division. After World War II, he went AWOL, making his way to Paris, where he was befriended by Senegalese poet Leopold Senghor, who later became his country's first president. Wright’s early ambition was to become a poet and was introduced and later became a friend of Langston Hughes. Wright's first book of poetry, "From the Shaken Tower," was edited by Hughes and published in 1944. He then graduated from Lincoln University, PA (where he pledged Alpha Phi Alpha), attended Fordham University Law School, and obtained his law degree from New York University Law School.
Mayor John V. Lindsay named him to the bench in 1970. Judge Wright was critical of the judicial system and believed that race and class all too frequently determined the outcome of a trial. Appointed as the General Counsel for the Human Resources Administration in New York City, Wright served as a judge in New York's civil and criminal courts. He was elected to the New York State Supreme Court in 1982 and retired on Dec. 31, 1994.
Justice Wright spent 25 years on the bench in both criminal and civil cases, gaining a reputation as a scholarly and provocative jurist who sprinkled his opinions with literary quotations. He was the author of a 1987 book, “Black Robes, White Justice,” about the role of race in the judicial system. Wright suffered a heart attack in March 2000 and was made an honorary member of Princeton's 2001 class 65 years after being denied a scholarship because of his race.
Judge Bruce M. Wright, who denounced what he called racism in the criminal justice system and created a furor in the 1970s by setting low bail for many poor and minority suspects, died in his sleep on March 24, 2005, at his home in Old Saybrook, Connecticut at the age of 86. His wife, Elizabeth Davidson-Wright, announced his death
