Hugh Bernard Price (born 1941) is a
U.S.
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activist
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. He served as the President of the
National Urban League
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from 1994 to 2003.
Price is a member of
Alpha Phi Alpha
Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc. () is the oldest intercollegiate historically African American fraternity. It was initially a literary and social studies club organized in the 1905–1906 school year at Cornell University but later evolved int ...
fraternity.
Price is a member of the advisory board of the
Future of American Democracy Foundation
a nonprofit, nonpartisan foundation in partnership with
Yale University Press
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, Yale Universi ...
and the Yale Center for International and Area Studie
, "dedicated to research and education aimed at renewing and sustaining the historic vision of American democracy."
Price was elected to the
American Philosophical Society
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in 1995 and the
American Academy of Arts and Sciences
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in 2000. He received the Westchester County Trailblazers Award in 2014.
Price is currently a senior fellow in Economic Studies at the
Brookings Institution
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.
References
External links
Hugh B. Price - Brookings Institution*
1941 births
Amherst College alumni
Living people
Members of the American Philosophical Society
African-American history of Westchester County, New York
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