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Reginald Wilson: A Black American Socialist (1927-2020) Reginald Wilson, the prominent African American psychologist and educator, civil rights activist and socialist, and a member of the New Politics board, died on December 13, 2020 at the age of 93. His was a quintessentially Black American story of the twentieth century, if a particularly illustrious one. From his role as a Tuskegee Airman to his activism with C.L.R. James’ Correspondence group, to his founding of the first Black ski club, to his academic career he was a remarkable individual. A socialist for 75 years, he serves as a model for us today. Reg’s parents Oliver Leon Wilson and Nancy McCrimmon Golden were from the South, his father born in Louisiana and his mother’s birth place unknown. They were part of the Great Migration, going north to Detroit where they settled in the Black Bottom neighborhood on the city’s near east side, a neighborhood that was demolished in the 1960s and replaced ....