Charles Webster

Collection, Historians, Lawrence E. Walker Foundation Collection

November 30, 2011

By: Pure History

Charles Webster

Historian

Trenton, New Jersey

Randall O. Westbrook, Ph.D

Historian and Professor

The Peter Samartino School of Education

At Fairleigh Dickinson University

Madison, New Jersey

Dr. Randall O. Westbrook, a social commentator and educator, is a member of the clinical teaching faculty of The Peter Samartino School of Education at Fairleigh Dickinson University of New Jersey. An honors graduate of Livingstone College in Salisbury, North Carolina, with graduate degrees from Rutgers University in New Jersey, Dr. Westbrook has been cited for his scholarship and leadership at the local, state and national levels. His work presenting Black history to fellow church and community members has earned him international acclaim, including an appearance on the Paul Robinson, Here I Stand program on the PBS’ acclaimed American Masters series. The Robinson biography premiered in 1999 on more than 500 PBS affiliated television stations across the United States. Dr. Westbrook is regularly called as an expert on issues such as college preparation, role models and education for minorities by The New York Times, The Hartford (CT) Courant, the Newark Star Ledger, WBLS (NY), WNTR (Morristown, NJ), NJ-101.5 Radio, as well as News 12 New Jersey, WGHP (Greensboro, North Carolina), WBTV (Charlotte, North Carolina) and others.