There is no need for generations to unfold to recognize the remarkable career of Dr. Benjamin F. Payton. BHM AmNewsBHM
For nearly 30 of those years, Payton was the president of Tuskegee University, the famed learning institution founded by Booker T. Washington in 1881. What Washington’s vision began, Payton extended. And from a small agricultural institution that the students helped to erect, it has grown into a full-fledged and highly recognized citadel of learning,
Although it was called the Tuskegee experiment, the study was conducted by U.S. Public Health Service and it went on for some 40 years. Payton told the press after Clinton’s apology that “it was long overdue.” The humble background was never a stumbling block for Payton’s inquiring mind and solid native abilities. He was instilled with a sense of purpose and achievement. And he was not alone in excelling in school. All of his siblings earned college degrees.
His desire for civil and human rights was strongly manifested when he helped organize the historic March on Washington in 1963. When professor Daniel Moynihan issued his infamous report on the dysfunctionality of the Black family, Payton was among the first to voice his objection, criticizing the report and viewing it as a total misapprehension of Black life. In other words, it was just another study in which Black men were blamed for their own impoverishment.
From 1967 to 1972, Payton was the president of Benedict College in Columbia, S.C. He then returned to New York City to assume a post as program officer for higher education at the Ford Foundation. He would remain in this position for nearly a decade before taking over the helm at Tuskegee.
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