AKA Roy Emile Alfredo Innis
Born: 6-Jun-1934
Birthplace: St. Croix, Virgin Islands
Gender: Male
Ethnicity: Black
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Activist
Nationality: United States
Executive summary: Congress of Racial Equality
Military service: US Army (1950-52, Sgt.)
Ran for NYC Mayor in 1993 against David Dinkins.
Father: Alexander Innis
Mother: Georgianna
Wife: Doris Funnye (m. 1965, six sons, two daughters)
High School: Stuyvesant
High School, New York City, NY (1952)
University: Chemistry,
City College of New York
Administrator: Board
Member, Daemen College
Congress
of Racial Equality National Director, 1968-82
Hudson
Institute Board Member
Ford
Foundation Fellow
National
Rifle Association Board Member
Author of books:
The Little Black Book (1971)
1934–, American civil-rights leader, b. St. Croix, Virgin Islands. A member of the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) since 1963, he has been its national director (1968–82) and has served as national chairman since 1970. In the late 1960s he traded the integrationist agenda of the civil-rights movement for the ideology of black power and a revived black nationalism. He then turned to the right, supporting Reagan-administration policies and criticizing the politics of Jesse Jackson. In 1996–98, Innis led teams that monitored elections in Nigeria.
© 2005 by Lee Howard. Reference: NNDB, Fact Monster.