Louis T. Rader
Louis T. Rader was an engineering and business professor at the University of Virginia who was active in the civil rights movement. He protested closing Virginia public schools during desegregation using the argument that businesses don't want to operate in a community with poor schooling.[1]
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Biography
The Louis T. Rader Professorship in Electrical Engineering was funded by friends, colleagues, and former students of the chair's namesake. A
Rader served as a member of the UVA faculty from 1969 until 1996. He held joint appointments in the Darden School and the School of Engineering and Applied Science, where he chaired the electrical engineering department. Rader had previously held executive positions at the Univac Division of Sperry Rand Corporation, International Telephone and Telegraph Corporation, and General Electric's Information Systems Division. [2] He was elected as a member of the National Academy of Engineering in 1970 for "Initiative in extending the applications of computers and control systems." [3]
Rader died on August 13, 2003. [3]
References
- ↑ Road to Brown: The untold Story of the Man Who Killed Jim Crow. Dir. Jim Elwood. Web. Cincinnati, Ohio: The PPS Group, 2006. http://search.lib.virginia.edu/catalog/r073
- ↑ Web. Endowments at the University, retrieved April 25, 2014.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Web. National Academy of Engineering Members, retrieved April 25, 2014.