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Edward Perkins was African American ambassador to Apartheid South Africa [audio 8min]

Juan Williams begins a series of profiles of American pioneers with the story of Edward Perkins, the first black U.S. ambassador to South Africa and to the United Nations. ~Website offers Williams's extended report, phots, book excerpt.
Read entire article at NPR "Morning Edition"