William Pickens: January 15, 1881
Jet, Jan 20, 1997
William Pickens, educator, author and public official, was born in Anderson County, SC, on this day. day. A graduate of Talladega (AL) College (1902) and Yale University (1904), Pickens taught at Talladega College and Wiley University in Marshall, TX. He also served as a vice president and dean of Morgan College in Baltimore.
In 1929, he was appointed field secretary for the NAACP. In 1941, he joined the United States Treasury's Defense Savings staff and directed its interracial section. He retired in 1952. Pickens authored The Heir of Slaves, Fifty Years of Emancipation, and The Ultimate Effects of Segregation and Discrimination. He died April 6, 1954, at the age of 73.
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