On April 22, 1981, Brailsford Reese Brazeal, a pioneering African American economist and longtime dean of Morehouse College, passed away at the age of 76 in Atlanta, Georgia. A Morehouse graduate himself, Brazeal earned his Ph.D. in economics from Columbia University in 1942—one of the first Black scholars to do so. As a professor and dean at Morehouse for over 30 years, he helped shape generations of Black leaders during the Civil Rights era. His scholarship often addressed race, labor, and economics in the American South, and he worked closely with fellow educators like Benjamin Mays to build Morehouse into a powerhouse of Black academic excellence.
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