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In Memoriam

by Diverse Staff , June 11, 2009

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In our 25 years of publishing, we¡¯ve lost some friends along the way. Here are some* of the scholars, diversity champions and other friends we lost in the last five years, since the 20th anniversary edition ¡®In Memoriam¡¯:

Dr. Elias Blake ¡ª president and chair of many higher education and historically Black college-oriented programs: National Association for Equal Opportunity in Higher Education, Institute for Services to Education (ISE) , U.S. Department of Education¡¯s Advisory Committee on HBCUs and Predominantly Black Colleges and Universities; also expert witness in the original Adams v. Richardson litigation, which later turned into Ayers v. Fordice

Bebe Moore Campbell ¡ª Black woman novelist, diversity champion at University of Pittsburgh

Johnnie L. Cochran Jr. ¡ª prominent Black lawyer, known for fighting police brutality cases on behalf of Black clients

Dr. Kenneth Bancroft Clark ¡ª social psychologist, renowned educator and principal architect of the Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies as a resource for Black elected officials

Ossie Davis ¡ª Black actor, playwright, producer, director, and political/cultural activist

Dr. Murry DePillars ¡ª artist, educator, historian, leader of Virginia Commonwealth University School of the Arts and the 1960s Black Arts Movement and Chicago's Black Cultural Renaissance

Dr. James Eaton Sr. ¡ª historian at Florida A&M University who served as founder, curator and director of the Southeastern regional Black Archives Research Center and Museum

Dr. John Hope Franklin ©¤ the James B. Duke Professor Emeritus of History at Duke University, wrote numerous publications;taught at a number of institutions, including Fisk University, St. Augustine¡¯s College, North Carolina Central University, and Howard University; was active in many professional and education organizations and a recipient of many awards

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