Bio Sketch of William W. Sales, Jr. Ph.D.

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William W. Sales, Jr. is Associate Professor and past Chairperson of
the Department of African American Studies and Director of the Center
for African American Studies at Seton Hall University. He received the
Ph.D. in Political Science from Columbia University and also holds a
Master of International Affairs degree from Columbia’s School of
International and Public Affairs. Dr. Sales’ undergraduate education
was at the University of Pennsylvania where he graduated with Honors
in international relations. A recognized expert on Malcolm X, Dr.
Sales is the author of two books, From Civil Rights to Black
Liberation: Malcolm X and the Organization of Afro-American Unity
(South End Press 1994) and Southern Africa/Black America: Same
Struggle, Same Fight (Black Liberation Press, 1977). He has also
authored numerous articles in the field of African American Studies.

Dr. Sales is a veteran of the Civil Rights and Student Power
Movements. His activism as head of the campus chapter of the NAACP at
Penn in 1963-64 led to the formulation and adoption of the
Philadelphia Plan for the integration of the building trades. He was
also a part of the leadership in the massive campus protest and
takeover at Columbia University in the spring of 1968. During the
1970s and 1980s, Dr. Sales established an exemplary record as a
community organizer and activist in Harlem New York City for which he
was honored in 1987 with Columbia University’s Revson Fellowship.

A Pan African internationalist, and member of the African Liberation
Support Committee in the early 1970s, Dr. Sales was a delegate to the
6th Pan African Congress in Dar Es Salaam Tanzania, and has traveled
to Cuba on four occasions and in 1990 at the invitation of Cuban
scholars participated in an international conference on Malcolm X. In
November of that same year, Dr. Sales co-directed the first
comprehensive international conference on Malcolm X held in New York
City at the Borough of Manhattan Community College. Dr. Sales is
presently active with the New York Research and Information
Collective, and serves as an Advisory Board member of the Malcolm X
Museum and as a member of the Board of Directors of the Interreligious
Foundation on Community Organization.