Samuel Clifford Adams Jr.

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Samuel Clifford Adams Jr. (born August 15, 1920 in Waco , Texas , † August 2, 2001 in Center , Texas) was an American development worker and diplomat .

Life

Samuel Clifford Adams Jr. grew up in Houston , where he graduated from high school in 1936 . He then studied sociology at Fisk University on a scholarship . He began a doctorate at the University of Chicago , which he interrupted at the outbreak of World War II to work as a civilian at the Norfolk Navy Yard . Because he was discriminated against as an African American there , he volunteered for the United States Army Air Corps , where he was employed as an assistant to the chaplain at Randolph Air Force Base . Adams campaigned for better working conditions for African Americans at the base. He joined the Economic Cooperation Administration in 1952 and became an educational advisor to the special technical and economic mission in Indochina . In Saigon he learned French and Vietnamese . In 1953 he completed his doctorate at the University of Chicago.

Adams became head of the Education Office of the International Cooperation Administration in 1955 and worked in Cambodia . He studied Southeast Asian and African languages ​​at the University of London from 1957 to 1958 . He then worked as a senior education advisor for the development aid agency USAID in Lagos until 1960 . He then spent two years in Bamako , followed by trips to Cameroon , Ivory Coast and Liberia . Adams served as the director of USAID in Rabat from 1965 to 1968 . In this role he had educational films made about wheat cultivation . In 1967 he was a member of the US delegation to the General Assembly of the United Nations . Samuel Clifford Adams Jr. became the United States Ambassador to Niger in 1968 . He held this office for a little more than a year. He returned to the United States in 1969 and became director of USAID's Africa office in Washington, DC. He retired in 1975.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Amy Essington: Adams, Samuel Clifford, Jr. (1920-2001). In: BlackPast.org. Retrieved February 26, 2017 (English).
  2. ↑ Samuel Clifford Adams Jr. (1920-2001). Office of the Historian, Bureau of Public Affairs, United States Department of State, accessed February 26, 2017 .
personal data
SURNAME Adams, Samuel Clifford Jr.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American development worker and diplomat
DATE OF BIRTH August 15, 1920
PLACE OF BIRTH Waco , Texas
DATE OF DEATH August 2, 2001
Place of death Center , Texas