Robert Curvin

Robert Curvin was a fiercely loyal advocate for Newark and scholar devoted to alleviating urban poverty.

• Co-founded the Newark chapter of the Congress of Racial Equality
• Served as a Ford Foundation official
• Active civil rights advocacy to the streets of Newark in the summer of 1967, when cities across the United States were erupting in racial violence
• Served as a professor of political science at Brooklyn College; a Dean for the Graduate School of Management, New School for Social Research; and a Trustee at Princeton University
• Appointed to The Times’s editorial board in 1977
• Earned his BA and MSW from Rutgers University and his Ph.D. in Political Science from Princeton University in 1975.

Robert Curvin passed away on September 29, 2015

Last updated 8/25/16