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- I was born in Greenville South Carolina, after I was born my mom married my step-father who would then later adopt me. I remain close with both my step father and real father, but the kids at school make fun of me for it. But I don't let it bother me and I use it as motivation to be successful.
- I rejected a minor league baseball contract so that I can go to University of Illinois on a football scholarship. Then I transferred to North Carolina AT, where I got to play quarterback and was elected student body president.
- I dropped out in 1966, three classes short of earning my master's degree, to focus full-time on the civil rights movements. I#160;was ordained a minister in 1968 and was awarded a Master of Divinity Degree in 2000
- I became active in local civil rights protests against segregated libraries, theaters, and restaurants.
- I began working with Martin Luther King and in 1965 I participated in the Selma to Montgomery marches organized by James Bevel, King and other civil rights leaders in Alabama
- Ebony Magazine named me one of the 100 most influential black Americans list in 1971. And in 1979, I received the Jefferson Award for Greatest Public Service Benefiting the Disadvantaged.In 1988, the NAACP awarded me its President's Award, and the next year, the organization awarded me the Spingarn Medal.
- A lot of my work is still having an affect, even to this day. And at some point I was a candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination in 1984 and 1988 and served as a shadow U.S. senator for the District of Columbia from 1991 to 1997.
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