Beating the Odds.Beating The Odds Rufus W. McKinney Vantage Press Inc. 419 Park Avenue South, 18th floor, New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of , NY 10016 0533149053 $21.95 1-212-736-1767 Beating The Odds: The Story Of One Black Man's Life In Twentieth Century America is the personal memoir of Rufus W. McKinney. Elected as Vice President for National Public Affairs Those public information, command information, and community relations activities directed toward both the external and internal publics with interest in the Department of Defense. Also called PA. See also command information; community relations; public information. for Southern California Gas This article or section needs sources or references that appear in reliable, third-party publications. Alone, primary sources and sources affiliated with the subject of this article are not sufficient for an accurate encyclopedia article. Company, appointed to the Maryland Commission on Human Relations by the governor of Maryland The Governor of Maryland heads the executive branch of the government of the U.S. state of Maryland and is commander-in-chief of the state's military forces. He or she is the highest ranking official in the state, and has a broad range of appointive powers in state and local in 1996, and inducted into the Academy of Law Alumni Fellows by the Indiana University Law Schools in 2002 as one of that institution's most distinguished graduates, McKinney has gained a great many honors in his life while having to overcome daunting daunt tr.v. daunt·ed, daunt·ing, daunts To abate the courage of; discourage. See Synonyms at dismay. [Middle English daunten, from Old French danter, from Latin obstacles beginning with being born in the small Arkansas town of Jonesboro in the heart of the Great Depression as one of a family of thirteen children. His childhood was one of poverty, even to the point of being bereft of indoor plumbing. McKinney began schooling in 1937 as the first steps up an academic ladder that culminating in earning a law degree from Indiana University and passing the bar in both Indiana and California. This in turn was to lead to a successful career in the energy industry and his become the first African American African American Multiculture A person having origins in any of the black racial groups of Africa. See Race. to head the Washington office of a Fortune 500 company. Highly recommended reading, Beating The Odds is a very apt title for McKinney's life and an autobiography that documents the value of education and hard work as the road out of poverty and into a life of success and accomplishment. |
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