Dr. William Neal Brown was the first black professor at Rutgers. ⁣ ⁣ His accomplishments were unique and varied – he served with the Tuskegee Airmen as a Captain in the U.S. Army Air Force during WWII as a special services officer; he debated Malcolm X on the topic of “Integration or Separation” in 1961 at Rutgers School of Pharmacy in Newark, the debate sponsored by the @NAACP and the Black Students Association. A recording of the debate is now part of the permanent collection of the Library of Congress.⁣ ⁣ In 1969 he was selected by NASW-NJ as recipient of the Social Worker of the Year award; he retired from the School of Social Work in 1989 as a Professor Emeritus; in 2007 he was cited as “a courageous pioneer in breaking down racial barriers and promoting equality” and was awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor; he attended President Obama’s Inauguration as an honored guest in January 2009 with the Tuskegee Airmen. Dr. Brown was a leader in the field of social work and authored m...