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A Year in Review: Gone But Not Forgotten
by Black Issues , December 18, 2003
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Mamie Till Mobley, the mother of Emmett Till, whose 1955 race-motivated killing became a catalyst for the civil rights movement, died in Chicago at age 81 in January.
Christopher Fairfield Edley, who served as president emeritus of the United Negro College Fund, died in May. He was 75. In 1973, he succeeded Vernon Jordan as president of the United Negro College Fund. He used the organization's trademark slogan, "A mind is a terrible thing to waste," to raise more than $700 million to help students bound for historically Black colleges.
Dr. Israel "Ike" Tribble died in July. Tribble, who was founding director of the McKnight Fund (Florida Endowment Fund), put his own aspirations of being a college president on hold to lead the fund's efforts to help minorities earn terminal degrees.
Dr. Donald G. Phelps, W.K. Kellogg Regents Professor in Community College Leadership at the University of Texas at Austin's College of Education, died in July. Phelps was the first African American to serve as chancellor of both the Seattle and the Los Angeles community college districts.
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