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Jones-William-B.2010.Toc 2.Pdf Association for Diplomatic Studies and Training Foreign Affairs Oral History Project AMBASSADOR WILLIAM B. JONES Interviewed by: Kenneth Brown and Charles Stuart Kennedy Initial interview date: June 24, 2010 Copyright 2012 ADST TABLE OF CONTENTS Background Born in California Ancestry Sc ooling Race relations Tuskegee Airmen University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) University College, Sout ampton, England University of California (UC) Law Sc ool Kappa Alp a Psi fraternity Joanne ,arland, wife A. P ilip Randolp Dr. Benjamin .ays Nu Beta Epsilon fraternity .arriage Los Angeles, California0 Law Practice 112341122 Partner, 5illiam R. Freeman Los Angeles, California6 Law practice 112241172 Local politics Democratic Party politics .r. Earl ,rant Legal cases Founding .ember, Los Angeles 5orld Affairs Council S:kou Tour: visit Entered t e State Department 1172 State Department6 Bureau of Education and Culture 117241171 C ief, 5est Coast and .ali Programs (117241174) Deputy Dir., African Programs (117441177) Director, Program Evaluation Staff (117741171 1 Deputy Assistant Secretary for Education and Cultural Affairs (117141173) Life in 5as ington, DC Black social groups Our Kind of People Sigma P i Pi (=t e Boul:) Family Sc ooling of c ildren American Society of African Culture (A.SAC) Fred Irving Leader Program Content Fulbrig t Relations wit USIA Congressman Jo n Rooney President Kennedy Crown Prince of Et iopia visit T urgood .ars all Jesse Owens Dar es Salaam anti4Britis riots .uslin Brot er ood, Sudan Averell Harriman ,uerilla movements Soviet activities Eduardo .ondlane, .ozambique US Training Program for Black Africans Candidate selection process Lincoln University Soviet programs Portuguese Sout ern Africa Refugee Program Britis interests Sout ern universities not in program Lucius Battle Office of Program Planning David Osborne April, 117A DC riots Contemplating career c ange 1177 Entered t e Career Foreign Service 1177 5ifeBs Career and activities Law sc ool (117A41171) Admitted to t e District of Columbia Bar 1172 2 State Department6 Deputy Assistant Secretary for 117141173 Education and Cultural Affairs (Continued) Assistant Secretary Jo n Ric ardson Congressman 5ayne Hays 5illiam .acomber Regional conferences =Public DiplomacyC Student eDc ange programs Regional Conferences Sout ern African Refugee Program Representation at UN Agencies UNESCO Paris ,eneral Conference Sovereignty issue Arab4Israel Paris, France6 C ief of .ission, US Permanent Representative 117341177 to t e UN Cultural and Scientific Organization (UNESCO) T ird 5orld objectives Soviets Arab4Israel Intellectual Property Congressional opposition to US members ip .embers Controversies Operations Secretariat Role of State Department Russian ambassador Piridov 1173 Arab4Israel 5ar Rupert Pro me .inister of Education Conferences Earna UNESCO EDecutive Board Conference Communist cultures Accra Africa .inisters of Education conference Fionist racist resolution Director ,eneral Amadou4.a tar .Bbow US financial contribution Ancient Nubia commission C ildrenBs education Environment Family Recreation United States Ambassador to Haiti 1177411A0 Deat t reat US military occupation 3 Cuban influence Duvalier regime Haitian istory .iDed races Landmarks =Papa DocC Duvalier Tonton .acoute President Jean4Claude Duvalier Promotion of democracy Economy USAID Infrastructure Industry Business class Art Relations Frenc relations Human Rig ts Program Eisas Former ambassador Clinton KnoD Security T reats of assassination Recreation Black Caucus delegation cancellation Duvalier family operations Eoodoo Local customs and entertainment Local culture Anecdotes of daily life Local staff Haitians in t e US Boat refugees Panama Canal Treaty discussions Diplomat in Residence, Hampton University 11A0411A1 Boul: members Student body Speaking engagements Lew Alcindor (aka Kareem Addul4Jabbar) Faculty Teac ing State Department6 Bureau of Intelligence H Researc 11A1411A2 Law f t e Sea Treaty Provisions Corporate American opposition 4 Elliot Ric ardson State Department6 Continuity of ,overnment Task Force 11A2411A3 Nuclear war games 5orld travel Ambassador in Residence, University of Eirginia 11A3411A4 Oceans Law Center Law of t e Sea Lecturing Retirement 11A4 Staff Director, House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on 11A4411A7 t e 5estern Hemisp ere Noriega Panama Canal Et nic groups Post4,overnment Activities 11AA4 International Business Law Firm Eisiting Fellow, 5oodrow 5ilson Foundation, Princeton, NJ University assignments St .aryBs (Sout ern .aryland) advisory board Tugaloo College Hampden4Sydney College .ember, Board of Trustees Pepperdine University Distinguis ed Eisiting Professor Distinguis ed black Americans ,eneral Comments Foreign Service as a career Family INTERVIEW Q: Today is June 24, 2010. I%m Ken Brown interviewing William Jones. We will obviously be interested in discussing your ambassadorship and how you got there. JONES6 Ies, t at s ould be very interesting. Q: Ambassador Jones, tell me when and where you were born. 2 JONES6 I was born on .ay 2nd, 112A, in Los Angeles, California. .y mot erBs family came to Los Angeles in 1104. .y mot erBs fat er, t at is, my grandfat er was born in 1A27, in ,eorgia. IBm an African American. He was born in slavery in 1A27, on t e Bowdoin Plantation. .y mot erBs grandfat erBs fat er was named Jo n J I ave a picture of im J e was eit er t e son of t e owner or someone related to t e owner of t e plantation. He ad green eyes. Family legend says e ad las marks on is back for attempting to escape from slavery. ,reat grandfat er married a C erokee Indian, I ave a tintype of t em in my living room. He was sitting, an old man wit a large bus y beard. Standing neDt to im was is wife a t ink very stoic looking woman. T eir son (I do not know ow many ot er c ildren t ey ad) was my mot erBs fat er, also named Jo n Bowdoin, w o was born in 1A27 on a plantation in ,eorgia. I do not know t e eDact location. .y mot erBs mot er was born in slavery in 1A71. Her fat er was Englis , t e overseer of t e plantation0 is name was Sparks. .y grandmot er was Nettie Sparks (Nettie a s ortened form of er full name Antoinette). S e met Jo n Bowdoin, my grandfat er, son of t e elder Jo n, and t ey married w en s e was about 17, 1A or 11 years old in t e late 1A70s. Jo n Bowdoin attended Clark College in Atlanta and earned a degree in t e classics. He taug t for a w ile at Clark and t en entered t e public sc ool system, teac ing and ultimately becoming principal of a colored sc ool in ,riffin, ,eorgia. During t eir marriage my grandmot er ad eleven pregnancies, nine of w om lived J Rosalieaus, Lorenzo, Corrine, Otis, Emory, Alva, Lindsay, Helen, and LaEelle (.y mot er). .y grandparents lived well. T ey were able to ave a cook and a ousekeeper. .y grandmot er never really learned to cook, as a consequence, s e was a terrible cook. In 1104, my grandparents decided to move out of t e segregated sout . .y grandfat er Jo n, wanted to move to Baltimore, .aryland, one of t e oldest areas of educated African Americans. However, my grandmot er liked Spanis names and convinced my grandfat er to move to t at romantic sounding =Los AngelesC California. T ey boarded t e Sout ern Pacific train wit seven c ildren (t e oldest Rosalieaus was married and remained in Atlanta). .y mot er was not yet born. T e family arrived in Los Angeles in 1104 and rented a ome for a year. In 1102 t ey paid cas for a ouse at 1173 Sic el Street in t e Lincoln Heig ts section of Los Angeles. If you know Los Angeles, t ey were east of t e LA River near Lincoln Park, t e County Hospital and t ree doors from t e Sout ern Pacific main line. It was a large ouse. It ad five bedrooms, living room, dining room, one large bat room on a large lot. 5e ad a walnut tree, a lemon tree, a loquat tree, and apricot tree, t ree fig trees, a plum tree, blackberry bus es, a c icken coop wit c ickens and a fis pond. .y mot er was a c ange baby. S e was born on December 2A, 1102, in t at ouse on Sic el Street. (As of t is writing, .ay 2011 s e is 102 years old, living independently in 7 er own ome in Los Angeles.) .y grandmot er t en was in er late forties. Her fat er, Jo n Bowdoin, was unable to obtain a teac ing position in t e LA city, or county sc ool system because e was =coloredC. However, t e older boys were able to obtain good paying jobs so t e family maintained its standard of living. .y grandfat er died of pneumonia and a deep sense of frustration in 1111. .y mot er was siD years old at t e time of is deat . Two of my uncles served in 5orld 5ar I, one, Otis, in t e Navy, serving in Scotland and Emory went to France in t e infantry. I used to play wit is gas mask, and is steel elmet, w ic was caked wit mud. .y mot er met my fat er w en s e was 140 t ey were bot in junior ig sc ool. After graduation from ig sc ool, t ey fell in love and married on September 30, 1122 w en my mot er was 11 and my fat er 20. T ey married in t e new ome owned by my uncle Otis and is wife Aunt Edna, w ic t ey built in 1124 on Serrano Street in t e Pico Heig ts section of Los Angeles.
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