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2003 Mary Hudson Onley Achievement Award Recipient
Artist and educator Robert Daniel was the first African-American faculty
member at Bridgewater State College, and is the co-recipient of the 2003
Mary Hudson Onley Award. A distinguished member of the campus community
for three decades (1959-1989), Dr. Daniel was committed to improving race
relations at the college and helped pave the way for other people of color
to become part of the Bridgewater family. In his retirement, he continues
to be an active member of the Monotype Guild of New England, the New England
Water Color Society, the South Shore Art Center and the National Association
for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP).
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2003 Mary Hudson Onley Achievement Award Recipient
Teacher, clinical psychologist and celebrated writer Beverly Daniel Tatum
is the ninth president of Atlanta's Spelman College. A national expert
on the challenges and opportunities associated with working in racially
mixed schools, Dr. Tatum is the author of the critically-acclaimed Why
Are All The Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?: And Other
Conversations About Race. Raised in Bridgewater, Dr. Tatum has spent
twenty-two years working in higher education, most recently as the acting
president of Mount Holyoke College. Along with her father, Robert Daniel,
she is the co-recipient of the 2003 Mary Hudson Onley Award from the Hall
of Black Achievement at Bridgewater State College.
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2002 Mary Hudson Onley Achievement Award Recipient
A longtime resident of Cape Cod,
Ms. Fortes, who recently celebrated her 90th birthday, has been widely
recognized for her community service. Born in Cape Verde in 1911,
she was 9 when her family came to America and settled in New Bedford,
Massachusetts. Having directly experienced the pain of
discrimination, she worked hard battling attempts to segregate local
beaches and restaurants on the Cape. Ms. Fortes is a founding member
of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, Cape
Cod branch, a member of the United States Civil Rights Commission, and a
member of the Advisory Board of the Massachusetts Commission Against
Discrimination, Cape Cod. She has also provided many years of loyal
service to the Hyannis Library Board and the Town of Barnstable Council on
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2001 Mary Hudson Onley Achievement Award Recipient
Edward W. Brooke was born October 26, 1919, in Washington, DC, and educated
at Paul Laurence Dunbar High School and Howard University where he received
his Bachelor of Science degree. During World War II he was a decorated
officer with the 366th Combat Infantry Regiment in Italy. Following the
war, Brooke entered Boston University's School of Law where he received
his LL.D. and LL.M. degrees and was an editor of the Law Review. He engaged
in the practice of law in Roxbury and Boston from 1948 until 1961 when
he was appointed Chairman of the Boston Finance Commission, a watchdog
agency for the City of Boston, where he quickly began ferreting out corruption
and proposed legislation to close loopholes in the law.
In 1962 Brooke became the first African-American in the United States
to be elected as a state's Attorney General. Working closely with the
newly created Massachusetts Crime Commission vigorously probed corruption
in state government, furthering his reputation as a crime fighter. In
the public panic over 14 women in what would become known as "the Boston
Strangler Case," Brooke coordinated county district attorneys offices
and fragmented police investigative efforts spanning multiple jurisdictions
and successfully concluding the massive investigation.
In 1966 Brooke became the first African-American popularly elected to
the United States Senate, the first African-American to serve since Reconstruction,
and the first and only to be re-elected. During his distinguished Senate
career Brooke strongly opposed escalation of the Vietnam War, fought the
MIRV and ABM proposals that would have expanded Cold War nuclear arsenals
and was the catalyst in bringing about improved relations leading to the
recognition of the People's Republic of China. He led efforts to block
the nominations of anti-Civil Rights Judges Clement Haynsworth and G.
Harrold Carswell to the U.S. Supreme Court and was the first Republican
Senator to call for the President Richard Nixon's resignation in the aftermath
of the Watergate break-in and cover up.
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Swepson Jackson
Educator, Civil Rights and Community Activist
2000 Mary Hudson Onley Achievement Award Recipient
Dr. Ellen Jackson has been active in the civil rights movement all her
life. From 1978 until her recent retirement, she served as dean and the
director of affirmative action at Northeastern University where she reported
directly to the president on all matters relating to affirmative action
and equal opportunity employment. Between 1969 and 1974, Dr. Jackson served
as the national director of the Black Women's Community Development Foundation,
Inc. in Washington, D.C. She was then appointed as contract compliance/project
director for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts Department of Education.
In 1965 she was the founder and executive director of Operation Exodus,
the first black grass roots organization in Boston.
Dr. Jackson was an incorporator for the Boston Five Cents Savings Bank.
She served as a board member and chairperson on numerous committees and
advisory boards. Dr. Jackson has been the recipient of numerous awards
and citations over the years. In 1975 the Ellen S. Jackson Fellowship
was established in her honor at the Harvard Graduate School of Education,
and the Ellen S. Jackson Children's Center opened its doors in 1983
at the Mission Hill extension housing development. The Schlesinger Library
at Radcliffe College has included Dr. Jackson's memoirs in a collection
known as the Black Women's Oral History Project. VU Productions included
the library's documents and transcripts in a 1993 six-hour TBS television
series entitled "A Family of Women."
She received her Bachelor's of Science degree from Boston State Teachers
College, and a Master's of Education from Harvard University Graduate
School of Education. In 1978 she was awarded an honorary Doctor of Humanities
degree from Northeastern University. In 1984 she was awarded an honorary
Doctor of Humane Letters from the University of Massachusetts. In 1994
she received an honorary Doctorate of Education from Wheelock College
and on January 28, 2000 she will receive an honorary doctorate from Bridgewater
State College.
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1999 Mary Hudson Onley Achievement Award Recipient
Robert C. Hayden is a historian who has contributed to African-American
historiography and its literature for thirty years. His research and writings
have been used extensively in public school curricula development and
the professional development of teachers throughout New England and the
nation. In 1991, he completed 31 years as a public school educator having
held four major administrative and executive positions in both the private
and public sectors related to urban education. Mr. Hayden has been a part-time
faculty member at the University of Massachusetts at Boston since 1978
and a lecturer at Northeastern University, Curry College, and the Art
Institute of Boston since 1992. In addition, he has served as President
of RCH Associates since 1992. RCH is a company that provides a range of
educational services and resources in African-American history and culture
to school, colleges and universities, corporations, government and community
agencies, and publishing houses. For the past 25 years, he has been a
speaker at numerous colleges and universities across the country, and
at corporations, public and private agencies, community organizations,
and churches.
Mr. Hayden is the author of fourteen books and publications on African-American
life and history. His first book, Black in America: Episodes in U.S.
History was published in 1969. Hayden's most recent works include
African-Americans and Cape Verdean Americans in New Bedford: A History
of Community and Achievement (1993), African-Americans in Boston:
More than 350 Years (1992), and A Cultural Guide to African-American
Heritage in New England (1992). In 1986, he wrote A Guide to the
TV Series ‘Eyes on the Prize': America's Civil Rights Years 1954
to 1965 (1986).
He is also known for his pioneering works on the history of African-Americans
in science, technology, and medicine. Hayden is the author of Seven
African-American Scientists, Nine African-American Inventors,
and Eleven African-American Doctors, all published in 1992 as new
editions of titles that first appeared in the early 1970's.
His first biography, Singing for All People: Roland Hayes (1989)
was written especially for young readers. He is currently working on a
biography of Dr. Louis T. Wright (1891-1952)--American's leading 20th
century African-American physician. Mr. Hayden was a contributor to the
Dictionary of American Negro Biography (1982), and he is a contributing
writer to the recent Encyclopedia of African-American Culture and History
(1995) and the soon to be released American National Biography.
A graduate of Boston University with both a Bachelor's and Master's degree,
he completed two post-graduate programs as a fellow in the Academic year
Institute at Harvard University (1965-66), and as an Urban Fellow in the
Department of Urban Studies and Planning at the Massachusetts Institute
of Technology (1976-77).
Hayden's numerous awards and honors include: "Historian of the Year
- 1997" from the Cape Verdean American Reunion (Providence), the
first recipient of the James B. Ames Fellowship at the University of Massachusetts-Boston
for research on the history and life of Blacks on the island of Nantucket
(1996-1997), and a Scholar-in-Resident position at the Schomburg Center
for Research in Black Culture at the New York Public Library (1994-1995).
In 1976, his Nine Black American Doctors was cited as one of the
"Outstanding Books for Young readers" by a joint committee of
the Children's Book Council and the National Science Teachers Association.
A lifetime member of The Association for the Study of Afro-American Life
and History (ASALH), he served as the Association's national secretary
from 1995 to 1998. Since 1992 he has served as chairman of the ASALH national
essay contest in African-American history and culture for undergraduate
and graduate students.
Mr. Hayden is the father of three children, Dr. Deborah Hayden-Hall,
a physician in private practice in Worcester; Kevin, an Assistant District
Attorney in Massachusetts; and Karen, a production assistant with Time,
Inc. in New York City. In addition to his selection for the 1999 Mary
Hudson Onley Achievement Award, Mr. Hayden received an honorary Doctorate
of Public Service from Bridgewater State College at its Winter Commencement
ceremony.
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