Federal government administrator, ambassador, and attorney Walter Charles Carrington was born on July 24, 1930, in Everett, Massachusetts. Carrington earned his B.A. from Harvard University in 1952; his J.D. degree from Harvard Law School in 1958. He was appointed commissioner of the Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination. In the 1960s, Carrington served in the Peace Corp as director of Africa. He was vice president of the African American Institute in 1971. He was appointed ambassador to Senegal in 1980. In 1981, Carrington was appointed director of the Department of International Affairs at Howard University. He also taught at Marquette University; Massachusetts Institute of Technology; and Washington College. In 1993, President Clinton appointed Carrington ambassador to Nigeria. In 1998, he was named a MacArthur Fellow, and in 2004, Carrington became the first African American Warburg Professor of International Relations at Simmons College in Boston.
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History Makers video oral history with The Honorable Walter C. Carrington