William W. Sales Jr.
William W. Sales, Jr. is Associate Professor and past Chairperson of the Department of African American Studies and Director of the Center for African American Studies at Seton Hall University. He received the Ph.D. in Political Science from Columbia University and also holds a Master of International Affairs degree from Columbia’s School of International and Public Affairs. Dr. Sales’ undergraduate education was at the University of Pennsylvania where he graduated with Honors in international relations. A recognized expert on Malcolm X, Dr. Sales is the author of two books, From Civil Rights to Black Liberation: Malcolm X and the Organization of Afro-American Unity (South End Press 1994) and Southern Africa/Black America: Same Struggle, Same Fight (Black Liberation Press, 1977). He has also authored numerous articles in the field of African American Studies.
Dr. Sales is a veteran of the Civil Rights and Student Power Movements. His activism as head of the campus chapter of the NAACP at Penn in 1963-64 led to the formulation and adoption of the Philadelphia Plan for the integration of the building trades. He was also a part of the leadership in the massive campus protest and takeover at Columbia University in the spring of 1968. During the 1970s and 1980s, Dr. Sales established an exemplary record as a community organizer and activist in Harlem New York City for which he was honored in 1987 with Columbia University’s Revson Fellowship.
A Pan African internationalist, and member of the African Liberation Support Committee in the early 1970s, Dr. Sales was a delegate to the 6th Pan African Congress in Dar Es Salaam Tanzania, and has traveled to Cuba on four occasions and in 1990 at the invitation of Cuban scholars participated in an international conference on Malcolm X. In November of that same year, Dr. Sales co-directed the first comprehensive international conference on Malcolm X held in New York City at the Borough of Manhattan Community College. Dr. Sales is presently active with the New York Research and Information Collective, and serves as an Advisory Board member of the Malcolm X Museum and as a member of the Board of Directors of the Interreligious Foundation on Community Organization (Bio. Source: People’s Organization for Progress).
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