Background
Tran Van Dinh was born and raised in Huế, the former imperial capital of Vietnam.
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In his youth, he participated in the anti-colonial struggle against the French. Later, he became a diplomat and has served in Thailand, Burma (Minister plenipotentiary), the United Nations (observer), Argentina, Mexico (nonresident ambassador) and the United States of America (Minister Counselor, Chargé d"affaires). After serving for 10 years in the Vietnamese diplomatic service in Southeast Asia, Tran Van Dinh joined the Embassy of Vietnam in Washington, District of Columbia in 1961.
From their post in Washington, the Van Dinhs took in the events of the growing Civil Rights Movement, in particular the 300,000 person March on Washington led by Doctor Martin Luther King, Junior.
These events would have a profound impact on their relationship with the United States, and would foreshadow their own immersion into the ongoing struggle for liberation around the globe. In 1963, Tran was in charge of the Vietnamese Embassy in Washington, District of Columbia as well as non-resident Ambassador to Argentina.
He resigned at the end of 1963 to pursue full-time his passion for peace and social justice work. From 1971 to 1985, he taught International Politics and Communications and chaired the Department of Pan-African Studies at Temple University.
Membership
Nuong Van-Dinh Tran, a Founding Member of the Washington Printmakers Gallery, has her work featured in The National Museum of Women in the Arts, The National Museum of American Art, The Smithsonian Institution, the Corcoran Gallery of Art, The Library of Congress Fine Prints Collection, the Permanent Collection of the Pushkin Museum, Moscow, and in many private collections.
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Religion
Humanist