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Sam Anderson

Education Director
Center for Law and Social Justice, Medgar Evers College

On March 29, 2005, the Fellows were joined by former Fellow, S.E. Anderson, as guest speaker. He provided background information for and current status of the reparations movement, nationally and internationally. S.E. Anderson is an activist-teacher-writer native of Bed-Stuy and is the son of Lt. Col. (Ret) Samuel Anderson and Ms. Grace Anderson. He is currently the Education Director at Medgar Evers College’s Center for Law & Social Justice. He was one of the founding members of the Black Panther Party as well as an activist within the Student Nonviolent Committee (SNCC) and the Black Arts Movement of the Sixties. He became one of the first Black Studies directors in 1969 when he was hired to chair Sarah Lawrence College’s Black Studies program. He has been an activist since the 1960's within various organizations and struggles. S. E. Andersonwas also a founding member of the Black Student Congress, African Heritage Studies Association, African Liberation Support Committee, The Black New York Action Committee, Black Liberation Press, The New York Algebra Project. He is currently active with Black New Yorkers for Educational Excellence, the Independent Commission on Public Education in NYC, The State of Black Education Retreat and The National Reparations Congress, and is a founding Board of Trustees member of The Malcolm X Museum. He is also a member of the Board of Directors of the Brecht Forum. S. E. Anderson has taught at Queens College, Sarah Lawrence College, SUNY at Old Westbury College, Rutgers University and the New School University as well as CCNY & Queens Colleges’ Centers for Worker Ed. He has also spent many years working within the anti-apartheid movement and for various African Liberation struggles. He is currently doing national and international education consulting work with a particular focus on developing their Math and Science curriculum. He is also a math/science consultant within the African American education community from public schools to the university. He has lectured widely throughout the US, the Caribbean and Africa on topics ranging from African and African American History to Science & Technology and its role in Africa and the Caribbean. S. E. Anderson has written not only the Black Holocaust for Beginners (Writers & Readers), but also co-authored with French Physicist Maurice Bazin a two volume work entitled The Third World Confronts Science & Technology (Livros Horizonte- Portugal, 1976) and, with Tony Medina, edited the award winning In Defense of Mumia (Writers & Readers). He has written numerous essays on the Black Liberation Movement as well as on math and science and technology as they relate to the Black Liberation struggle. He is currently editing The Reparations Now! Reader (Doubleday) and is writing for Writers & Readers two more For Beginners Books: Slavery For Beginners and Race For Beginners. S. E. Anderson lives in Bed-Stuy with his writer-activist wife, Rosemari Mealy. They have two sons, Marc & Dedan and a granddaughter, Nandi. He can be reached at seanderson@mail.com.

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