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Charles V. Willie
Born(1927-10-08)October 8, 1927
Dallas, Texas
DiedJanuary 11, 2022(2022-01-11) (aged 94)
Brighton, Massachusetts
OccupationProfessor
SpouseMary Sue Willie
Children3
Academic background
Alma materMorehouse College
Atlanta University
Syracuse University
ThesisSocio-economic and ethnic areas of Syracuse, New York. (1957)
Academic work
DisciplineSociology
Sub-disciplinedesegregation, higher education, public health, race relations, urban community problems
InstitutionsSyracuse University
State University of New York Upstate Medical University
Harvard University

Charles Vert Willie (8 October 1927 – 11 January 2022) was an American sociologist who was the Charles William Eliot Professor of Education, Emeritus at Harvard University. His areas of research included desegregation, higher education, public health, race relations, urban community problems, and family life. Willie considered himself an applied sociologist, concerned with solving social problems. He was a member of Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity.

Biography

Willie was born October 8, 1927, in Dallas, Texas, the grandson of Louis Willie, a former slave.[1] His father, Louis Willie, was a pullman porter. His mother Carrie Sykes, was one of the first black women to earn a college degree in Texas, but was unable to teach in the segregated Dallas school system because she was married. She therefore home-schooled her children until they able to ride in the back of the streetcars to their segregated schools.[2]

He received his B.A. from Morehouse College in 1948 where he was class president,[3] an M.A. from Atlanta University in 1949, and his Ph.D. in sociology from Syracuse University in 1957. For many years he resided with his wife Mary Sue Willie in Concord, Massachusetts.[4][5][2] He had three children who have careers in government (James Theodore Willie), construction (Martin Charles Willie), and academia (Sarah Susannah Willie-LeBreton).[6]

Willie died at his home in Brighton on January 11, 2022, at the age of 94.[2]

Career

Willie became the first African-American professor at Syracuse University where he taught from 1950 to 1974. He served President John F. Kennedy as the Research Director of Washington Action for Youth, a delinquency-prevention planning program in Washington, D.C. sponsored by the President's Committee on Juvenile Delinquency and Youth Crime from 1962–1964.[7] He returned to Syracuse University from 1964–1966. In July 1961 Willie first brought his Morehouse College classmate, Martin Luther King Jr. to speak at Syracuse,[8] and again in July 1965 he introduced King to an audience of 1,000 at major speech at Syracuse University.[9][10] In 1966–67, he was on leave from Syracuse as a Visiting Lecturer in Sociology at the Harvard Medical School in its Department of Psychiatry as part of the Laboratory of Community Psychiatry.[11] He was chairman of the Department of Sociology [12] and was vice president of student affairs 1972–1974 at Syracuse [13] at the time he left Syracuse to accept a tenured position as professor of education at Harvard University's Graduate School of Education in 1974.

In 1977, President Jimmy Carter appointed Willie and nineteen others (from among over 1,000 candidates) [14] to the President's Commission on Mental Health.[15]

Willie was a member of the Board of Directors of the Social Science Research Council. He served as vice president of the American Sociological Association and president (1974–75) of the Eastern Sociological Society.[16]

He also served as a consultant, expert witness, and court-appointed master in major school desegregation cases in various large cities including the landmark case of Boston (1974) from which emerged the "Controlled Choice" plan popularized by Willie and Michael Alves and used in Boston for 10 years and Cambridge for 20 years.[17] Willie did desegregation planning work in Hartford, Dallas, Denver, Houston, Kansas City, Little Rock, Milwaukee, San Jose, Seattle, and St. Louis; and in other municipalities such as St. Lucie County and Lee County, Florida, and Somerville, Cambridge, and Brockton, Massachusetts.

Willie was a lay member of the Episcopal Church in the United States, a former member of its Executive Council and a past vice president of the House of Deputies, one of two houses, with the House of Bishops, that makes up the General Convention of the Episcopal Church in the United States of America. Willie was the first African-American elected as Vice-President of the House of Deputies (1970).[18] Although a lay member of this religious association, he was invited to deliver the ordination sermon at an irregular service held in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania at the Church of the Advocate, July 29, 1974 in which the first eleven women were ordained as priests in this denomination.[19][20][21] Some members of the Episcopal Church were reluctant to acknowledge the priesthood of women, and the ordination was disputed. Meeting in emergency session in Chicago, the House of Bishops invalidated the ordination by a vote of 128 to 9 because the four officiating bishops had "not fulfilled constitutional and canonical requirements." Willie then resigned August 18, 1974 his elected office of vice-president, in protest at the Bishops' failure to uphold the ordination and accord women equal rights.[22] Ms. magazine designated him a male hero in its tenth anniversary issue (August 1982). He and forty other men were honored for taking courageous action in behalf of women.

Awards & Honors

In 2004 Willie received the American Sociological Association's William Foote Whyte Distinguished Career Award; in 2005 he was co-recipient with Charles Tilly of the ASA's W. E. B. DuBois Career of Distinguished Scholarship Award.[23] He had previously received in 1994 the ASA's DuBois-Johnson-Frazier Award.[24] In February 2006 Willie received the Eastern Sociological Society Merit Award, the highest award it can bestow on members.[25]

A number of colleges, universities, and seminaries conferred honorary doctoral degrees upon Willie including Syracuse University, 1992; Haverford College, 2000;[26] Episcopal Divinity School, 2004; Emerson College, 2008, Morgan State University, 2013;[1][27] and Beacon College, 2019.[28] In June 2000 Syracuse University awarded Willie its George Arents Pioneer Medal, the highest alumni honor the University can bestow.[29]

In 2013 the Eastern Sociological Society established an annual award in Dr. Willie's name to be given to a minority graduate student who demonstrates exceptional scholarly promise, "in recognition of Willie's work on racial and ethnic minorities, his support of minority graduate students, and his invaluable contributions to ESS."[30] In 2021 the Harvard University Graduate School of Education renamed a Doctor of Education Leadership fellowship as the Dr. Charles Willie Fellowship. The fellowship provides an Ed.L.D. student with financial support during their three-year doctoral program.[31]

Partial bibliography

Willie was the author or editor of over 100 articles and 30 books on issues of race, gender, socioeconomic status, mental health, religion, education, urban communities, and family relations.[31] Bibliographic citations from OCLC Worldcat.[32]

  • Willie, Charles Vert and Richard J. Reddick, A New Look at Black Families. 6th ed. Lanham, Maryland: Rowman & Littlefield, 2010
  • Willie, Charles Vert, Steven P. Ridini, and David A. Willard. Grassroots Social Action : Lessons in People Power Movements. Lanham, Maryland: Rowman & Littlefield, 2008.
  • Willie, Charles Vert, Richard J. Reddick, and Ron Brown. The Black College Mystique. Lanham, Maryland: Rowman & Littlefield, 2006.
  • Willie, Charles Vert and Richard J. Reddick, A New Look at Black Families. 5th ed. Walnut Creek CA: Altamira Press, 2003
  • Willie, Charles Vert, Ralph Edwards, and Michael J.,Alves, Student diversity, choice and school improvement. Westport, Connecticut : Bergin & Garvey, 2002
  • Edwards, Ralph, and Charles Vert Willie. Black power/white Power in Public Education. Westport, Conn: Praeger, 1998.
  • Willie, Charles Vert, Michael J. Alves, and Educational Resources Information Center (U.S.). Controlled Choice a New Approach to School Desegregated Education and School Improvement. Providence, Rhode Island; Washington, D.C.: Education Alliance Press and the New England Desegregation Assistance Center, Brown University; U.S. Dept. of Education, Office of Educational Research and Improvement, Educational Resources Information Center, 1996.
  • Willie, Charles Vert. Mental Health, Racism, and Sexism. London; Pittsburgh: Taylor & Francis; University of Pittsburgh Press, 1995.
  • Willie, Charles Vert. Theories of Human Social Action. Dix Hills, New York: General Hall, Inc, 1994.
  • Willie, Charles Vert, et al. The Education of African-Americans. New York: London: Auburn House, 1991.
  • Willie, Charles Vert, Michael K. Grady, and Richard O. Hope. African-Americans and the Doctoral Experience : Implications for Policy. New York: Teachers College Press, 1991.
  • Willie, Charles Vert. A New Look at Black Families. 4th ed. Dix Hills, New York: General Hall, 1991.
  • Willie, Charles Vert, Michael J. Alves, and David J. Hartmann. Long-Range Educational Equity Plan for Milwaukee Public Schools., 1990.
  • Willie, Charles Vert. Racism and Mental Health; Essays. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1977.
  • Willie, Charles Vert, The Caste and Class Controversy on Race and Poverty : Round Two of the Willie/Wilson Debate. 2nd ed. Dix Hills, New York: General Hall, 1989.
  • Willie, Charles Vert, and Inabeth Miller. Social Goals and Educational Reform : American Schools in the Twentieth Century. New York: Greenwood Press, 1988.
  • Willie, Charles Vert. A New Look at Black Families. 3rd ed. Dix Hills, New York: General Hall, 1988.
  • Willie, Charles Vert. Effective Education : A Minority Policy Perspective. New York: Greenwood Press, 1987.
  • Grady, Michael K., and Charles Vert Willie. Metropolitan School Desegregation : A Case Study of the Saint Louis Area Voluntary Transfer Program. Bristol, Ind., U.S.A: Wyndham Hall Press, 1986.
  • Willie, Charles Vert. Five Black Scholars : An Analysis of Family Life, Education, and Career. Lanham, Md: Abt Books, 1986.
  • Willie, Charles Vert. Black and White Families : A Study in Complementarity. Bayside, New York: General Hall, 1985.
  • Willie, Charles Vert, and Michael K. Grady. Desegregating Schools in the St. Louis Metropolitan Area : An Analysis of First-Year Effects of a Voluntary Interdistrict Transfer Program : Final Report. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Graduate School of Education. Harvard University, 1985.
  • Willie, Charles Vert. School Desegregation Plans that Work. Westport, Conn: Greenwood Press, 1984.
  • Willie, Charles Vert. Race, Ethnicity, and Socioeconomic Status : A Theoretical Analysis of their Interrelationship. Bayside, New York General Hall:, 1983.
  • Willie, Charles Vert. A New Look at Black Families. 2nd ed. Bayside, New York: General Hall, 1981.
  • Willie, Charles Vert. The Ivory and Ebony Towers : Race Relations and Higher Education. Lexington, Mass: Lexington Books, [Aldershot]: Gower (distributor), 1981.
  • Willie, Charles Vert, et al. The Stages in a Scholar's Life. Cambridge, Mass: Harvard Graduate School of Education, 1981.
  • Willie, Charles Vert, Susan L. Greenblatt, and Joint Author. Community Politics and Educational Change : Ten School Systems Under Court Order. New York: Longman, 1981.
  • Willie, Charles Vert. The Caste and Class Controversy. Dix Hills, New York: General Hall, 1979.
  • Willie, Charles Vert. The Sociology of Urban Education : Desegregation and Integration. Lexington, Mass: Lexington Books, 1978.
  • Willie, Charles Vert, and Ronald R. Edmonds. Black Colleges in America : Challenge, Development, Survival. New York: Teachers College Press, 1978.
  • Willie, Charles Vert. Black/brown/white Relations : Race Relations in the 1970s. New Brunswick, New Jersey: Transaction Books, 1977.
  • Willie, Charles Vert. A New Look at Black Families. Bayside, New York: General Hall, 1976.
  • Willie, Charles Vert. Oreo : A Perspective on Race and Marginal Men and Women. Wakefield, Mass: Parameter Press, 1975.
  • Willie, Charles Vert. Perspectives on Contemporary African and Afro-American Development. Nashville, Tennessee: Vanderbilt University, 1975.
  • Willie, Charles Vert and Jerome Beker. Race Mixing in the Public Schools. New York: Praeger, 1973.
  • Willie, Charles Vert. Racism and Mental Health; Essays. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1973.
  • Willie, Charles Vert and Arline Sakuma McCord. Black Students at White Colleges. New York: Praeger, 1972.
  • Willie, Charles Vert, William A. Darity, Jr., and Population Reference Bureau. Perspectives from the Black Community. Washington, D.C.: The Bureau, 1971.
  • Willie, Charles Vert comp. The Family Life of Black People. Columbus, Ohio: Merrill, 1970.
  • Willie, Charles Vert. The Student-Teacher Relationships Experienced by Black Students at White Colleges. Syracuse, New York:, 1970.
  • Willie, Charles Vert, and Arline F. Sakuma. The Social Life of Black Students on White College Campuses. Syracuse, New York: Dept of Sociology, Syracuse University, 1970.
  • Willie, Charles Vert. Church Action in the World; Studies in Sociology and Religion. New York: Morehouse-Barlow Co, 1969.
  • Willie, Charles Vert. Socio-economic and ethnic areas, Syracuse and Onondaga County, N.Y., 1960 Syracuse, New York: Syracuse University Youth Development Center, 1962.

Archives

  • Charles Vert Willie Papers. 1948-1999. 104 linear feet. Held by the University Archives of Syracuse University .[33]

References

  1. ^ a b "Charles Willie's Biography". The HistoryMakers. Retrieved 18 January 2022. Archived 2016-03-03 at the Wayback Machine accessed 9/21/09
  2. ^ a b c Marquard, Bryan (16 January 2022). "Charles Willie, an architect of 'controlled-choice' school desegregation plan, dies at 94". The Boston Globe. Retrieved 17 January 2022.
  3. ^ "Morehouse, Spelman Prom 40 Years after Boycott by Martin Luther King's Class". Jet. June 27, 1988. pp. 22–23.
  4. ^ Charles Vert Willie and Richard J. Reddick (2003). A New Look at Black Families. Walnut Creek, California: Rowman Altamira. p. 183.
  5. ^ "Charles Vert Willie, Concord Oral History Program, Renee Garrelick, Interviewer". March 23, 1989. Retrieved 12 January 2022.
  6. ^ "Education: Father and Daughter Sociologists". Jet. March 24, 2003. p. 13.
  7. ^ "Juvenile Delinquency in Racially Mixed Neighborhoods". American Journal of Sociology. 29 (5). October 1964.
  8. ^ Gutierrez, Matthew (21 January 2019). "In Syracuse, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s messages resonate half a century later". The Daily Orange. Retrieved 12 January 2022.
  9. ^ Kirst, Sean (18 January 2015). "Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in Syracuse, just after Selma: Moment of hope, a challenge still unmet". Syracuse Post-Standard. Retrieved 18 January 2022.
  10. ^ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S2ksXq6u-r8 Accessed September 19, 2016.
  11. ^ Race, Ethnicity, and Socioeconomic Status, 1983
  12. ^ Jet June 29, 1967, p. 45
  13. ^ http://soeweb.syr.edu/newsevents/index.cfm?id=147 accessed 11/17/09
  14. ^ John T. Woolley and Gerhard Peters. "The American Presidency Project". Santa Barbara, California. Retrieved 2009-11-17.
  15. ^ Gerald N. Grob (2005). "Public Policy and Mental Illnesses: Jimmy Carter's Presidential Commission on Mental Health". The Milbank Quarterly. Vol. 83, no. 3. pp. 425–456.
  16. ^ http://www.essnet.org/?page_id=97 accessed 21 September 2014
  17. ^ Marin Jorgensen (November 1, 2005). "The "Accidental Career": A HGSE News interview with Professor Charles Vert Willie". HGSE News. Retrieved 2009-11-17.
  18. ^ http://www.episcopalarchives.org/Afro-Anglican_history/exhibit/timelines/timelines.php Accessed 11/17/09
  19. ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2011-05-03. Retrieved 2009-11-17.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) accessed 11/17/09
  20. ^ Charles V. Willie. "The Priesthood of All Believers, a sermon ...". in Betty Bone Schiess (2003). Why Me Lord?: One Woman's Ordination to the Priesthood with Commentary and Complaint. Syracuse, New York: Syracuse University Press. pp. 145–??.
  21. ^ Eleanor Blau. "11 Women Ordained Episcopal Priests; Church Law Defied :Women Become Episcopal Priests; Tenets Defied". New York Times. p. 69. ProQuest 79623490.
  22. ^ Eleanor Blau (August 19, 1974). "Episcopal Leader Quits; Protests Curb on Women :Regret at Resignation Debate Goes On". New York Times. p. 50. ProQuest 79373927.
  23. ^ Source: "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2009-01-08. Retrieved 2009-11-17.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) accessed 11/17/09
  24. ^ http://www.gse.harvard.edu/faculty/charles-willie accessed 21 September 2014
  25. ^ Source: http://www.gse.harvard.edu/news_events/features/2006/02/27_willie.html accessed 11/17/09
  26. ^ "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2009-10-08. Retrieved 2009-09-19.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  27. ^ http://news.morgan.edu/index.php/morgan-students-celebrate-137th-commencement/ Accessed September 10, 2103.
  28. ^ https://www.beaconcollege.edu/beacon-news/2019/05/beacon-college-commencement-salutes-record-class-social-justice-advocates/ accessed 12 January 2022
  29. ^ http://archives.syr.edu/awards/arents.html Archived 2010-06-09 at the Wayback Machine accessed 11/17/09
  30. ^ http://www.essnet.org/?page_id=472 accessed 21 September 2014
  31. ^ a b Anderson, Jill. "HGSE Remembers Charles Willie". Retrieved 15 January 2022.
  32. ^ http://www.worldcat.org/search?q=au%3Awillie%2C+charles+v.&qt=advanced&dblist=638 accessed 11/20/09
  33. ^ "Charles Vert Willie Papers". Retrieved 12 January 2022.

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