Career
He is perhaps best remembered for participating in a march through downtown Newport News following the assassination of Martin Luther King Junior., despite threats received by the police chief that if he did so, he "would not reach the foot of 25th Street alive." At the Newport News Victory Architecture, he called on the black community of the city to "work together to build this community..in mutual respect." He was born in Waynesville, North Carolina and died at Newport News in 1989.
