Manpower specialist
New NAACP
Official To
Assume Duties
Richard E. Barber, a man
power management specialist
from Pittsburgh, Pa., will
... assume his post this week as
the NAACP’s new Deputy
Executive Director.
Benjamin L. Hooks, the
organization's Executive
Director, announced the ap
pointment at the Association's
If, recent National Leadership
Summit Conference in Chica
go. He said Mr. Barber’s
“strong personal desire to
improve the living conditions
of the poor and the downtrod
den, and his well-earned repu
tation as a sincere and dedi
cated managerial leader,"
were the outstanding traits
which led to his selection.
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the son of former share
croppers in Trenton, North
Carolina, Mr. and Mrs. John
Barber. He attended North
Carolina A ft T University,
where he graduated with a B.
S. degree in physics. He later
earned an M. S. degree in
Systems Management at the
Unive sity of Southern Cali
fornia, with additional work at
the University of Pittsburgh.
In 1960 Barber left a promi
sing career with Westlnghouse
Electric to become Deputy
Director of the Opportunities
Industrialization Centers
(OIC) in Pittsburgh. In July
of 1970 he cofounded Urban
Talent Development, Inc.-a
management development
and business orientation
center. In what has been
described as “a classic story
in manpower and manage
ment development success,"
Urban Talent Development
trained the unemployed, the
* underemployed, ex-offenders
and the forgotten, and placed
.over one thousand of them in
* meaningful Jobs. In 1974 the
organization was cited in the
Congressional Record as one
of the most effective man
power development centers in
the country.
Another outstanding tribute
to Dick Barber s talents is
Pittsburgh’s New World
National Bank. The state’s
only Black-owned full service
commercial bank was created
and organised under the
dynamic leadership of Board
chairman, Barber, and
opened its doors for business
on March 17,1975.
Unlike most business execu
tives who never find time to
became involved in commu
nity activities, Barber is an
active board member of the
Pittsburgh NAACP, the
YMCA, the Red Cross, the Boy
Scouts, and a Deacon and
, Trustee of Pittsburgh Central
Baptist Church.
In addition, be was chosen
as one of the "Outstanding
Young Men In America” in
1170; one of the ten Outstand
ing Young Men in America in
1979 by the U.S. Jayceeo; a
recipient of the George Wash
ington Freedom Medal in 1983
I and 1984; a recipient of the
r North Carolina A k T State
University National Alumni
Association Achievement
Award in 1970; and the Robert
• L. Vann Memorial Award
from the Pittsburgh Courier in
1979.
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