Education
Dana Chandler was educated in Boston Public Schools. From an early age he began fighting for social justice using art as a tool for change. He was awarded the National Scholastic Art Award for all four years of his high school career, at Boston"s Technical High School as well as the school"s first annual Art Award in 1959.
lieutenant was at this time that he joined the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People in the black integrationist movement.