George Wiley
February, 1972
In 1957, he received a Ph.D. from Cornell and, eight years later, was awarded tenure as an associate professor of chemistry at Syracuse University. Seemingly, George Wiley had found his place in the comfortably settled academic world. Not so. While at Syracuse, Wiley became a civil rights activist and, after a year and a half, he left teaching to work for James Farmer at CORE. Wiley's overview of the racial situation confirmed, not surprisingly, that the "economic issue is the most basic pr...
