Browne, Robert S.

Robert Span Browne; born 1924 in Chicago, Illinois; received B.A. in economics with honors from University of Illinois; M.B.A., Univ. of Chicago; economist; officer with U.S. Agency for International Development in Cambodia (1955-1958) and in Vietnam (1958-1961); African-American activist for black economic empowerment; economic consultant; asst. professor of economics, Dillard University (1947) and Fairleigh Dickinson University (1964-1972); also taught at Rutgers Univ., and Univ. of California-Berkeley; Senior Research Fellow, African Studies, Howard University (1982-1985); founder (1969) and executive director of the Black Economic Research Center in New York; protested U.S. involvement in Vietnamese Conflict; participated in Inter-University Committee for Debate on Foreign Policy, 1965-1967.

From the description of Collection, 1962-1968, 1971, 1975. (Swarthmore College, Peace Collection). WorldCat record id: 47662999