William J. Trent
American economist and civil-rights activist
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William J. Trent's Degrees
- PhD Economics University of Pennsylvania
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, William Johnson Trent, Jr. was an African-American economist, non-profit director and civil rights activist from Atlanta, Georgia. Career Trent was born in Asheville, North Carolina and moved with his family to Atlanta at an early age. His father, William J. Trent, Sr., was an early organizer of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People . He graduated from a black private high school in Atlanta and attended Livingstone College, from which he graduated with a bachelor's degree in 1930. His father was president of Livingstone at the time. He then earned a master's degree in economics from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania at the University of Pennsylvania and did graduate work at the University of Chicago. He then returned to North Carolina and taught for two years at his alma mater and later Bennett College.
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