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Samuel dewitt proctor biography examples
Samuel DeWitt Proctor – Profile of a Civil Rights Activist...
Samuel DeWitt Proctor
Samuel DeWitt Proctor (July 13, 1921 – May 22, 1997) was an American minister, educator, and humanitarian.
An African-American church and higher education leader, he was active in the Civil Rights Movement and is perhaps best known as a mentor and friend of Martin Luther King Jr.
Proctor served as president of Virginia Union University, and North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University.
He also led the Peace Corps in Africa, and served as the senior pastor of Abyssinian Baptist Church in New York City.
Early life
Samuel DeWitt Proctor was born in Norfolk, Virginia on July 13, 1921.[1] Unusual for an African American born in this era, Proctor's grandparents on both sides had received education at the university level: his paternal grandmother had attended Hampton Institute, and both of his maternal grandparents had attended Norfolk Mission College,the forerunner of Booker T Washington High School in Norfolk, Virginia.
His parent