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Follow on Google News | Union Institute & University Welcomes Civil Rights Leader Dr. Virgil Wood For Talk July 6Coordinated the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King’s Historic March on Washington, Will Help Launch UI&U’s Specialization in MLK Studies
By: Nicole Hamilton Ordained as a Baptist Minister in his late teens, Wood has served churches in RI, MA, and VA. During his Pastorate in Lynchburg, VA, he became actively involved with the civil rights movement, setting up Martin Luther King’s work there as the Lynchburg Improvement Association, a local unit of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference. He served with the Conference for the last ten years of Dr. King’s life and work, and coordinated the state of VA in the Historic March on Washington April 28, 1963. In 1973, he received his Doctorate in Education from Harvard University. As an educator, he served as Dean and Director of the African American Institute and Associate Professor at Northeastern University in Boston, and has been a professor at Virginia Seminary and College in Lynchburg, and a visiting lecturer, research and teaching fellow at Harvard University. Dr. Wood has many notable accomplishments. As an administrator for Opportunities Industrialization Centers of America, a job training organization serving disadvantaged and under-skilled Americans of all races, he assisted in founding and establishing 13 OIC centers in eight southern states, and in Boston, MA. Wood also served as a panelist and member of three White House conferences under the Johnson, Nixon, and Carter administrations. For more information about the talk contact: Jonathan Eskridge, Program Director, 513-487-1199 or jonathan.eskridge@ # # # Union Institute & University is a private, accredited university that has, since 1964, redefined higher education by placing learners at the center of their own education. Union serves more than 2000, self-motivated, socially conscious adults in rigorous faculty- mentored programs without interrupting professional, family, and community commitments. UI&U offers individualized programs of study leading to the baccalaureate, master’s, and doctoral degrees. In addition to its distance learning programs, academic centers are located in Cincinnati (OH), Los Angeles and Sacramento (CA), Miami (FL), and on its Vermont College Campus in Montpelier and the Brattleboro Center (VT). End
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