Rutgers' Professor Dr. Bethel speaks of his transition from a HBCU during the "Sixties"

Dr. Bethel is a professor in the Africana Studies Department at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, New Jersey. Professor discusses the Civil Rights Movement and the Sixties' riots and there affects on his career. Mainly, his transition as a professor from a historically Black School to a predominately White School. He gives an analysis of the adverse affects, the brain drain the HBCU's experienced in the 70's. Professor Bethel also defends African American's Spiritual right, the right to celebrate all American holidays, including Juneteenth. In it we celebrate the hope of our ancestors,not a dream deferred but a dream now realized. Dr. Leonard Bethel is enter­ing his 40th year of service at Rutgers and completed his doctorate of education from the Graduate School of Education at Rutgers University in 1975. Dr. Bethel is the author of Africana: An Introduction and Study, Plainfield’s African-American: From Northern Slavery to Church Freedom, and a book titled: Advancement through Service: A History of the Frontiers. In 2003, Dr. Bethel was awarded R utgers University’s Warren I. Susman Award for teaching excellence and was selected as a Fellow of the Oxford Roundtable, Oxford University, England. He will join us tonight to offer his insights on this week's upcoming Black History holiday, Juneteenth.