Robert C. Weaver
Robert Clifton Weaver ( born December 29, 1907 in Washington DC; † July 17, 1997 in New York City ) was an American university professor and politician. He was from 1966 to 1968 U.S. Construction Minister, at the same time he was under President Lyndon B. Johnson the first African American ministers in the United States.
Life
After school he studied at Harvard University, in 1931 he graduated in 1929 with a Bachelor of Science ( B.Sc.) and a Master of Arts (MA). In 1934 he graduated as Philosophiae Doctor ( PhD). His professional career began in 1933 as an assistant to Secretary of the Interior Harold L. Ickes. In 1937, he was Special Assistant to the Housing Authority ( Housing Authority ), before he then 1940 Administrative Assistant of the National Defense Advisory Commission ( National Defense Advisory Commission ) was.
In 1947 he accepted an appointment as Professor of Education at New York University and was then 1949-1954 director of the scholarship program of the John H. Whitney Foundation. Weaver was 1951-1962 board member of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People ( NAACP ), the oldest and most influential civil rights organizations in the United States, and which last from 1960 to 1962 its chairman.
1955 he was appointed commissioner for Rent in New York State, before he was consultant to the Ford Foundation in 1959. Following this, he was Deputy Chairman of the Authority for 1960 housing and road rehabilitation of the State of New York. 1961 he was appointed head of the U.S. Housing and Home Finance Agency ( Housing & Home Finance Agency).
On January 18, 1966, he was appointed by U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson for the first Minister of Housing and Urban Development of the United States ( Secretary of Housing and Urban Development ). At the same time he was the first African American in the U.S. government. Weaver was among the Cabinet Johnson to 18 December 1968 so until one month before the end of his term, to.
After retiring from the Government 1969, he was first president of Baruch College, before he then in 1970 appointed Professor of urbanization to the Hunter College adopted, where he taught until 1978.
He died in 1997 at the age of 89 years.
Writings
Weaver was also the author of several reference books on the situation of blacks in the U.S., but also on issues of urbanization and urban development such as:
- Negro Labor: A National Problem (1946 )
- The Negro Ghetto (1948 )
- The Urban Complex: Human Values in Urban Life (1964 )
- Dilemmas of Urban America ( 1965)