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Challenges
- Provided leadership during Civil Rights Movement
- Supported TSU students’ involvement -including protests and sit-ins-while facing pressure from city officials and community leaders who wanted to protests to stop
Accomplishments
- Improved university’s finances
- Improved math and science instruction and raised faculty standards
- Dissolved overseer position to give president’s office full authority
- Responsible for growth in academic instruction, campus facilities and programs to facilitate economic opportunities for African Americans
- Enhanced extracurricular activities and athletic program
- Received appointments from President Dwight D. Eisenhower, John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson
Tenure
1955-1966
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