Meier, August, 1923-....

Pioneer Youth statement of purpose

A noted scholar of African American history and civil rights activist, August Meier was born in Newark, N.J., on April 30, 1923. Raised in an intellectually demanding, politically-engaged family, Meier and his younger brother Paul were steeped in progressive, assimilationist ideals by their father, Frank, a chemist with the American Platinum Works and son of a German Socialist, and mother Clara, a public school teacher and principal who had come from a family of radical Eastern European Jewish intellectuals. Although set apart from his peers by his intellectual interests and taste for high culture in music, August found a firm foundation for his future self through a summer camp in Rifton, New York, operated by the Pioneer Youth of America. Years later, he recalled the camp fondly:

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