Karl D. Gregory

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Karl D. Gregory
Born
Academic career
Institution Oakland University
Wayne State University
Congressional Budget Office
Office of Management and Budget
FieldUrban Economics, Labor Economics
Alma mater Wayne State University (BA) (MA) University of Michigan (PhD)
AwardsMLK Community Service award, 2008
Bishop H. Coleman McGehee, Jr., Lifetime Achievement Award, 2014

Karl D. Gregory is an American economist who is professor emeritus of economics at Oakland University in Michigan, [1] and was an early president of the National Economic Association. [2] In 1962, he was refused the opportunity to purchase a home in developer William Levitt's Belair subdivision of Bowie, Maryland, based on his race, sparking extensive protests which contributed to the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1968. [3]

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Education and early life

Gregory was born and raised in Detroit, Michigan. [4] He earned two degrees from Wayne State University and a PhD in economics from the University of Michigan. [5]

Career

Gregory worked in the Bureau of the Budget (now the Office of Management and Budget) in Washington, D.C., in the Kennedy and Johnson administrations while volunteering as chair of the Congress of Racial Equality. [6] [4] He then joined the faculty of Oakland University, where he taught for 27 years. [5]

In 2014, the Michigan Coalition for Human Rights awarded him the Bishop H. Coleman McGehee Jr., Lifetime Achievement Award. [6] [ non-primary source needed ]

Selected works

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References

  1. "Detroit Housing Crisis: A Historical Perspective". The Michigan Chronicle. 2020-02-11. Retrieved 2021-01-05.
  2. "National Economic Association 50th Anniversary Celebration and Honors Luncheon" (PDF). January 4, 2020.{{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  3. WETA (12 June 2020). ""Belair at Bowie": Segregated Suburbia". Boundary Stones: WETA's Washington DC History Blog. Retrieved 2021-01-05.
  4. 1 2 "Dr. Karl Gregory, September 1st, 2015 · Detroit Historical Society Oral History Archive". detroit1967.detroithistorical.org. Retrieved 2021-01-05.
  5. 1 2 CCSC. "Dr. Karl D. Gregory Caribbean National in America's Civil Rights". CCSC. Retrieved 2021-01-05.
  6. 1 2 "Oakland University - News Archive - Distinguished Professor Emeritus Economics receives lifetime achievement award in human rights". ucmapps.oakland.edu. Retrieved 2021-01-05.