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Charles V. Hamilton
American political scientist (–)
Charles Vernon Hamilton (October 19, – November 18, ) was an American political scientist, civil rights leader, and the W.
S. Sayre Professor of Government and Political Science at Columbia University.[1]
Biography
Hamilton was born in Muskogee, Oklahoma on October 19, and was the middle child between his elder brother Owen Hamilton Jr.
and younger sister Lyna Hamilton- Williams.[2][3] His family moved to the southside of Chicago, Illinois in , which is where he was raised. He had aspirations to be a journalist growing up, but he was dissuaded as, in his words, “there [weren’t] many jobs for black people who want to be journalists.”[4] He went to Roosevelt University to study political science and graduated in ,[3] and went on to earn a master's degree in from the University of Chicago.[1] He joined the Tuskegee Institute faculty in , but his contract there was