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History > USA > Civil rights > Activists
Robert Mangum 1921-2014
Robert J. Mangum was sworn in as chairman of the State Commission for Human Rights at Gov. Nelson A. Rockefeller’s New York City office on July 31, 1967.
Photograph: The New York Times
Robert Mangum, a City and Civil Rights Leader, Dies at 93 NYT By DOUGLAS MARTIN OCT. 8, 2014
Robert James Mangum 1921-2014
In 1933, Robert J. Mangum arrived in New York as an orphan of 13.
As he told the story, he held his little sister by one hand and carried a satchel with all his belongings in the other.
They moved in with an aunt and uncle who lived at the edge of poverty.
He sold newspapers, manned a vegetable stand and was a page at the Metropolitan Opera.
Mr. Mangum went on to build a career as diverse as it was accomplished.
He became the youngest deputy police commissioner in New York City history, the chief of President Lyndon B. Johnson’s War on Poverty in the Northeast, and the chairman of human rights for New York State.
In 1943, as a 22-year-old police officer, he helped found the Guardians Association, a fraternal group for blacks in the New York City Police Department.
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In 1963, he joined with David N. Dinkins (who went on to become the first black mayor of New York), Jackie Robinson and business leaders to start One Hundred Black Men, an organization to enhance opportunities and provide role models for minorities.
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of the New York affiliate of the National Urban League.
In 1971, he became the first black judge appointed to the New York State Court of Claims, which adjudicates claims against the state.
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/09/nyregion/
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