Background
Tyson, Albert Dillard was born on January 2, 1927 in Selma, Alabama, United States. Son of Albert Dillard Senior and Beulah V. (Foster) Tyson.
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Albert Dillard Tyson
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Education
Master of Science, Wilberforce U., 1948; Master of Science, Rutgers University, 1950; Master of Divinity, Princeton Theological Seminary, 1963; Doctor of Humane Letters (honorary), Monrovia College, Liberia Doctor of Laws (honorary), Edward Waters College.
Career
Pastor, Mount Pisgah African Methodist Episcopal Church, Princeton, New Jersey, 1961-1966;
pastor, Mount Pisgah African Methodist Episcopal Church, Jersey City, 1972-1983;
pastor, St. Luck African Methodist Episcopal C., Newark, 1966-1972;
pastor, Union Chapel, Newark, 1983-1989;
pastor, Macedonia African Methodist Episcopal Church, Flushing, New York, since 1989. Delegate General Conference African Methodist Episcopal, Dallas, Atlanta, Fort Worth, 1972-1976, 88, World Conference on Methodism, Singapore, 1991. Board directors Self Help, Inc., Philadelphia.
Advisory board Bank of New York, Flushing, since 1990.
Achievements
Membership
Founder, head master Mount Pisgah School, Jersey City, 1976-1983. Budget director, chairman political action Black Clergy, Newark, 1983-1989. Chairman of the Board Coalition for Planned Flushing, since 1990.
Member African Methodist Episcopal Ministerial Institute (board examiners), African Methodist Episcopal Mins. Alliance (chairman political action since 1990), Queens Federation Churches (board directors), Kappa Alpha Psi.
Connections
Married Marion Winifred Hughes, August, 1947. Children: Albert III, Margaret, Fredrick, Mark.
