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The Life of a Black Pioneer
Michem Publishing
September 2015
On Sale: September 1, 2015
630 pages
ISBN: 1611861713
EAN: 9781611861716
Kindle: B0146H7HOY
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Non-Fiction Memoir | Non-Fiction Biography
Privilege and Prejudice is a stereotype-defying
autobiography. It reveals a Black man whose good fortune in
birth and heritage and opportunity of time and place helped
him to forge breakthroughs in four separate careers. Clifton
R. Wharton Jr. entered Harvard at age 16. The first Black
student accepted to the School of Advanced International
Studies at Johns Hopkins, he went on to receive a doctorate
in economics from the University of Chicago—another first.
For twenty-two years he promoted agricultural development in
Latin America and Southeast Asia, earning a post as chairman
of the Rockefeller Foundation. He again pioneered higher
education firsts as president of Michigan State University
and chancellor of the sixty-four-campus State University of
New York system. As chairman and CEO of TIAA-CREF, he was
the first Black CEO of a Fortune 500 company. His commitment
to excellence culminated in his appointment as deputy
secretary of state during the Clinton administration. A
remarkable story of persistence and courage, Privilege
and Prejudice also documents the challenges of competing
in a society where obstacles, negative expectations, and
stereotypical thinking remained stubbornly in place. An
absorbing and candid narrative, it describes a most unusual
childhood, a remarkable family, and a historic career.
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