Title Page | Collection Summary | Biographical/Organizational Note | Scope and Content | Arrangement
Biographical Note
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
| 1928, May 21 | Born, Williamson, W.Va. |
| 1950 | B.S., West Virginia State College, Institute, W.Va. Artillery officer, 98th Field Artillery Battalion, 82nd Airborne Division, Fort Bragg (present-day Fort Liberty), N.C. |
| 1951 | Married Annie Delphine Evans (died 1975) |
| 1953 | Medically retired from the United States Army |
| 1953 | Studied medicine at Universität Heidelberg, Germany |
| 1959 | Diplome de Docteur, Université de Genève, Switzerland |
| 1966-1968 | Associate anesthesiologist, Harlem Hospital Center, New York, N.Y. |
| 1968-1969 | Founder and director, Narcotics Control Hospital Orientation Center, Harlem Hospital Center, New York, N.Y. |
| 1969 | Founder, Addiction Research and Treatment Corporation (ARTC), Brooklyn, N.Y. |
| 1971 | Traveled to Vietnam with Jerome Jaffe to establish a drug testing program for the United States military |
| 1971 | Adjunct professor, Hunter College School of Social Work, New York, N.Y. Adjunct professor, M. J. Lewi College of Podiatry (later New York College of Podiatric Medicine), New York, N.Y. |
| 1972-1973 | Advisor, Special Action Office for Drug Abuse Prevention, The White House |
| 1983 | President, Urban Resource Institute, New York, N.Y. |
| 1986 | Formed the Brooklyn AIDS Task Force, Brooklyn, N.Y. |
| 1987 | Cofounder and chair, Board of the National Minority Aids Council, Washington, D.C. |
| 1987-1988 | Appointed to the Presidential Commission on the Human Immunodeficiency Virus Epidemic, Washington, D.C. |
| 1988 | Vice-chair, National Black Leadership Commission on AIDS, New York, N.Y. |
| 1989-1993 | Associate administrator, Office of Treatment Improvement (later Center for Substance Abuse Treatment), Rockville, Md. |
| 2004-2005 | Member, Presidential Advisory Council on HIV/AIDS, Washington, D.C. |
| 2015, Oct. 16 | Died, New Rochelle, N.Y. |