Clifton R. Wharton Jr.agreed to meet college friends in the Willard Hotel’s lobby in Washington one evening in the late 1940s ...

Dr. Clifton R. Wharton Jr, MSU’s first Black president and a community leader and pioneer, has died at the age of 98. Wharton became MSU’s 14th president in 1970. During his tenure ...

As the son of a pioneering Black diplomat, Clifton R. Wharton Jr. spent most of his early years abroad in places where he ...

Dr. Clifton Wharton Jr. Photo: Getty Images. A multicategory trailblazer, Clifton Wharton Jr. taught people never to accept ...

By Glenn Rifkin When Clifton R. Wharton Jr. was appointed president of Michigan State University in 1969, he became the first African American in the nation to be named to head a major ...

Clifton R. Wharton Jr., a barrier-breaking pioneer in both education in business, has died at 98. Wharton Jr. was the first ...

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) — Clifton R. Wharton, Jr., Michigan State University’s first Black president, has died. He was 98 years old. The university announced his death late Saturday.

EAST LANSING — Clifton Wharton Jr., a former Michigan State University president whose name and memory are tied to MSU's Wharton Center, died Saturday. He was 98, MSU’s president from 1970 ...

Clifton R. Wharton Jr., who shattered racial barriers in a multifaceted career in education, international development and business, serving as the first Black president of a major, predominantly ...