Dr. Alvin Vincent Blount, Jr. was born on February 24, 1922, in Raleigh, North Carolina. He was the oldest of four children and the only son of parents who worked as domestics. Blount enrolled at North Carolina A&T University in 1939. He served as the student body president and chairman of the campus newspaper before […]

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