Lucas, C. Payne
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Name (Latin)
Lucas, C. Payne
Other forms of name
Lucas, Cleotha Payne
Date of birth
1933-09-14
Date of death
2018-09-15
Associated country
United States
Field of activity
AIDS (Disease)--Prevention
Economic assistance--Africa
Occupation
Airmen
Executives
Associated Language
eng
Gender
male
MARC
MARC
Sources of Information
- African American National Biography, accessed February 27, 2015, via Oxford African American Studies Center database:(Lucas, C. Payne; Cleotha Payne Lucas; state department official, AIDS activist, airman, corporate executive; born 14 September 1933 in Spring Hope, North Carolina, United States; graduated from Maryland State College with a BA in history (1959); joined the U.S. Air Force (1953); earned a MA in government from American University, Washington, D.C. (1961); joined the Peace Corps (1962-1971); served at the Togolese Republic until 1964; received the President's Award for Distinguished Federal Service; was a country director, Republic of Niger (1964-1966); director, African Region (1967-1969); was co-founder, president and executive director (1971) of Africare, Washington, D.C.; President Ronald Reagan awarded him U.S. Presidential End Hunger Award for Outstanding Individual Achievement (1984); received the Franklin H. Williams Peace Corps Director Award (2002); retired as Africare president (2002) remaining a board member and a senior advisor to All Africa Global Media; became the first African American to receive Hubert H. Humphrey Public Service Award (1991); author of Keeping Kennedy's Promise: The Peace Corps' Moment of Truth (1978))
- New York times WWW site, viewed Oct. 5, 2018(in obituary published Oct. 4: C. Payne Lucas; b. Cleotha Payne Lucas, Sept. 14, 1933, Spring Hope, N.C.; disliked his first name and adopted the initial early; d. Sept. 15, Silver Spring, Md., aged 85; leader in aid to Africa)
- Lowther, K. Keeping Kennedy's promise, 1977 (a.e.)t.p. (C. Payne Lucas)
- Biog. dic. master index, 1975-76(Lucas, C. Payne)
- WWA 1976-77(Lucas, C. Payne)