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Robert Singleton - Loyola Marymount University. Los Angeles, CA, US

Robert Singleton

Associate Professor Emeritus of Economics | Loyola Marymount University

Los Angeles, CA, UNITED STATES

Bellarmine College of Liberal Arts

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Freedom Rider Robert Singleton visits LBCC

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Biography

Robert Singleton is an Emeritus Professor of Economics at Loyola Marymount University.

Education (1)

University of California, Los Angeles: Ph.D., Economics

Areas of Expertise (3)

Urban Economics

Labor Economics

Economic Development of Minority Communities

Media Appearances (1)

'Civil Rights Icons' series bring living participants of the movement to Stanford campus

Stanford University News  online

2014-03-03

Robert and Helen Singleton were a young married couple in 1961 when they organized a contingent of students at UCLA to join the Freedom Rides to the South. They, too, were jailed in Mississippi. "We realized that we were, in a sense, leaving it all up to the youngsters down South to fight this battle if we didn't go and respond, and that was unfair," Robert Singleton, now an economics professor at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles, told UCLA magazine in 2011...

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