Post by Bornthrilla on Apr 14, 2009 7:49:06 GMT -5
Civil rights leader charged in embezzlement
Tuesday, April 14
( updated 7:58 am)
By Sonja Elmquist
Staff Writer
GREENSBORO — A man facing four felony charges in connection with an embezzlement scheme that police say stole $400,000 from the estate of a Greensboro woman is a retired professor who has been a civil rights leader for 40 years.
Claude Barnes, 57, was arrested last week on felony charges of embezzlement, identity theft, conspiracy and obtaining property by false pretense, according to police. He was released on a written promise to appear in court May 15.
Barnes, a one-time N.C. A&T teacher of the year, joined the A&T faculty in 1993. A political science professor, Barnes retired Feb. 29, according to university officials.
Barnes’ involvement in civil rights in Greensboro began when he was a 17-year-old junior at Dudley High School. Barnes initiated a protest that sparked the 1969 “Greensboro Rebellion,” after Dudley’s administration didn’t recognize his write-in victory in the school’s student body president election. The protest escalated into three weeks of violence that included a National Guard mobilization.
He was also a member of the Greensboro Truth and Community Reconciliation Project, which convened a board to study the 1979 shootings in which five people died at an anti-Ku Klux Klan rally.
Barnes received his bachelor’s degree from A&T and his master’s and doctorate from Clark Atlanta University.
Barnes did not return phone calls seeking comment.
Read more:
www.news-record.com/content/2009/04/13/article/civil_rights_leader_among_those_charged_in_scheme
Tuesday, April 14
( updated 7:58 am)
By Sonja Elmquist
Staff Writer
GREENSBORO — A man facing four felony charges in connection with an embezzlement scheme that police say stole $400,000 from the estate of a Greensboro woman is a retired professor who has been a civil rights leader for 40 years.
Claude Barnes, 57, was arrested last week on felony charges of embezzlement, identity theft, conspiracy and obtaining property by false pretense, according to police. He was released on a written promise to appear in court May 15.
Barnes, a one-time N.C. A&T teacher of the year, joined the A&T faculty in 1993. A political science professor, Barnes retired Feb. 29, according to university officials.
Barnes’ involvement in civil rights in Greensboro began when he was a 17-year-old junior at Dudley High School. Barnes initiated a protest that sparked the 1969 “Greensboro Rebellion,” after Dudley’s administration didn’t recognize his write-in victory in the school’s student body president election. The protest escalated into three weeks of violence that included a National Guard mobilization.
He was also a member of the Greensboro Truth and Community Reconciliation Project, which convened a board to study the 1979 shootings in which five people died at an anti-Ku Klux Klan rally.
Barnes received his bachelor’s degree from A&T and his master’s and doctorate from Clark Atlanta University.
Barnes did not return phone calls seeking comment.
Read more:
www.news-record.com/content/2009/04/13/article/civil_rights_leader_among_those_charged_in_scheme
