Records of the Peace Corps. 1961 - 2000. Interviews Relating to Volunteer Service. 1982 - 1982. Marcia Nauckhoff and C. Payne Lucas Interviews

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Records of the Peace Corps. 1961 - 2000. Interviews Relating to Volunteer Service. 1982 - 1982. Marcia Nauckhoff and C. Payne Lucas Interviews

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Lucas, C. Payne

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Africare co-founder and thiry-year president, C. Payne Lucas was born on September 14, 1933, in Spring Hope, North Carolina. He grew up in a family of fourteen children and earned money as boy picking cotton and shining shoes. In 1951, he earned his high school diploma from Spaulding High School, where he was a member of the baseball team and excelled in drama and public speaking activities. In 1950, during his junior year of high school, he joined the NAACP and became a youth representative for...