Leonard, Walter J., 1929-2015

found: NUCMC data from Fisk University for Fisk University Institute for Research in Black American Music collection, 1920-1985(Walter J. Leonard; also appears as Walter Leonard, eleventh president of Fisk Univ.; collection contains correspondence with Leonard)

found: WWAfrAmer, 1998-99p. 914 (Leonard, Walter J.; educator; b. Oct. 3, 1929, Alma, GA; Fisk Univ, pres, 1977-84)

found: African American National Biography, accessed February 19, 2014, via Oxford African American Studies Center database:(Leonard, Walter J.; Walter Jewell Leonard; educator, lawyer, civil rights activist; born 03 October 1929 in Alma, Georgia, United States; enrolled in the Georgia State Industrial College for Colored Youth (later Savannah State University); earned a graduate degree in Business Administration from Atlanta University; enrolled in Howard University School of Law (1965); worked as an independent consultant to SCLC; adviser to the NAACP Youth Division of the Southeast Region headquartered in Atlanta; earned a JD and accepted a position as assistant dean at Howard Law School (1968); assistant dean at Harvard Law School; chaired a Harvard committee (1973); chaired the Harvard University Committee on Equal Employment Opportunity; principal drafter of the famous Harvard Plan; president of Fisk University; Oxford University also created the Walter J. Leonard Research Fellowship and the Walter J. Leonard Visiting Fellowship)

found: New York times WWW site, viewed Dec. 17, 2015(in obituary published Dec. 16: Walter J. Leonard; b. Walter Jewell Leonard, Oct. 3, 1929, Alma, Ga.; d. Dec. 8, Kensington, Md., aged 86; chief architect of an admissions process at Harvard that has been emulated across the United States, opening colleges and universities to more women and minorities; president of Fisk University, 1976-1983)