Education
University of Michigan. Washburn University.
University of Michigan. Washburn University.
He remained working for the Federal Government for thirty-one years, retiring in 1997. Born in Flint, Michigan, he had previously served in the United States Navy, been a private practice judge, a Social Security Administration hearing examiner and a trial attorney for the Federal Power Commission. He was a graduate of the University of Michigan, the University of Kansas and Washburn University.
Brady published A Certain Blindness chronicling his ancestors history on their arrival in the United States, and received many accolades from civil rights groups during his career.
Brady was the great-nephew of Bass Reeves, who was among the first African Americans to receive a commission as a Deputy United States. Marshal west of the Mississippi River, and the second husband of Xernona Clayton, a civil rights leader.