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Wednesday, January 11, 2012

Why is There No Modern Day Roscoe Nix in Montgomery County?

by Joseph Hawkins
I’m glad that as a Montgomery County Public School employee, I knew Mr. Nix. For more than a year in the late 1980s, I served as a consultant to a NAACP Blue Ribbon Panel that Mr. Nix established to examine why so few black males enrolled in and graduated from Maryland colleges and universities. And I have defended Mr. Nix’s role in putting race on the MCPS table—long before Jerry Weast arrived in our county....
Read Mr. Hawkins article on Roscoe Nix at this Patch link:
http://rockville.patch.com/blog_posts/why-is-there-no-modern-day-roscoe-nix-in-montgomery-county

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