Everett Louis Overstreet was born in DeKalb, Mississippi on October 9, 1941. He received his bachelors degree in civil engineering (Ohio University, 1967), a masters degree in civil engineering (Carnegie-Mellon University, 1973), and a Ph.D. in engineering (California Coast University, 1988). He married JoAnn R. Gregory on June 28, 1970. They moved to Alaska in 1975, and he began work as a staff engineer for Alyeska Pipeline Service Company. He later worked for Contra-Tech Inc., the Anchorage School District, Construction Control Services Corporation, and Trigen-Peoples District Energy Company. Some of Mr. Overstreet's more notable activites include being an editorial columnist for the Anchorage Times (1981-1986) and the All Alaskan Weekly (1988-1989), president of the Alaska Black Caucus, and chairman of the Municipality of Anchorage Martin Luther King, Jr. Tribute Committee. He was a member of the Alaska Pacific University Board of Trustees, the First Christian Methodist Episcopal Church Trustees Board, the Common Sense for Alaska Board of Directors, and the University of Alaska, Anchorage Citizens Advisory Committee. He is also the author of the book Black on a Background of White: A Chronicle of Afro-Americans' Involvement in America's Last Frontier, Alaska (published in 1988). Louis Overstreet left Alaska in 1992.
From the description of Papers, 1972-1993 1981-1993. (UAA/APU Consortium Library). WorldCat record id: 58810193
