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Clement Alexander Price (1945–2014) was an American historian and public intellectual. Board of Governors Distinguished Service Professor of History at Rutgers University-Newark, Price brought his study of the past to bear on contemporary social issues in his adopted hometown of Newark, New Jersey, and across the nation. He was the founding director of the Institute on Ethnicity, Culture, and the Modern Experience at Rutgers; the vice chair of President Barack Obama’s Advisory Council on Historic Preservation; the chair of Obama’s transition team for the National Endowment for the Humanities; a member of the Scholarly Advisory Committee of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture; and a trustee of the National Trust for Historic Preservation. He was appointed City of Newark Historian in early 2014. His service to New Jersey included appointments by Governors Brendan Byrne and Thomas H. Kean to the New Jersey State Council on the Arts, which he served as Chair for two terms, and by Governor Christine Todd Whitman to the board of the Save Ellis Island Foundation, which he also chaired. On November 2, 2014, Price succumbed to a catastrophic cerebral hemorrhage while speaking in New Brunswick at a (Rutgers Jewish Film Festival ) screening of (Joachim Prinz: I Shall Not Be Silent ), a film project in which he had participated. Rabbi Bennett Miller shared the podium and recounted Price’s final words in response to a question about the future of civil rights in the U.S.: “I still have hope.” Price died on November 5, never having regained consciousness. == Early life and education == Price was born on October 13, 1945, in Washington, D.C., the middle child of James Leo Price, Sr., who was employed by the United States Department of the Treasury, and Anna Christine (Spann) Price, a home maker through much of his childhood, and later a domestic worker and professional seamstress. His older brother, James Leo Price, Jr., a distinguished school principal (retired), returned to South Carolina to raise his family. Younger sister Jarmila Louise Price-Gaines, a director of music education programs, resides in California. Price’s parents had both been participants in the Great Migration of African Americans from the American South in the early twentieth century. They evaded Jim Crow by moving to northern cities in search of better employment and educational opportunities for their children.〔(Price Funeral Program )〕 Price felt fortunate to be brought up in Northeast Washington’s Brentwood community surrounded by family and friends and the closely-knit fellowship of Israel Metropolitan C.M.E. Church. He attended Washington’s McKinley Tech High School, where he was an accomplished distance runner on the school’s track team and competed in cross country and mile run events. Also, with his brother, he home delivered the major Washington newspapers.〔 He earned Bachelor’s and master's degrees at the University of Bridgeport, and received a PhD in History at Rutgers University-New Brunswick. He cited as inspiration and mentors such founding historians of the African American experience as W.E.B. DuBois, John Hope Franklin, August A. Meier and Sterling Stuckey.〔(Curriculum Viate )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Clement Alexander Price」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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