[Eileen Cleary]

Hi Will.

We never hear about Samuel Allen either , who in my opinion is a living treasure and may not be around much longer.

Allen was Deputy Assistant District Attorney in New York City from 1946 to 1947, a civilian attorney with the U.S. Armed Forces in Europe (1951-1955), and in private practice in New York from 1956 to 1958. He taught law at Texas Southern University from 1958 to 1960. In 1961, he was appointed to the position of assistant general counsel of the U.S. Information Agency and served in that position until 1964. He was then named chief counsel of the Community Relations Service in Washington, D.C., a position he occupied from 1965 to 1968. In 1968, he was named Avalon Professor of Humanities at the Tuskegee Institute, where he taught for two years. In 1971 he became a professor of English at Boston University where he taught until he retired in 1981. Allen also taught at Wesleyan University (1970-71) and was writer-in-residence at Tuskegee and at Rutgers University

He was instrumental in public policy leading up to the NAACP, part of the negritude movement, a social scientist/writer/lawyer/professor. He also wrote under the name Paul Vesey. He is still alive and one of the most gentle of gentlemen one could ever meet. We don't hear enough about so many unsung people. He's one of them.

Don't know if I'm allowed to post a poem of his in this thread-but they are easy to pull up online.

Eileen