 He served President John F. Kennedy as the Research Director of Washington Action for Youth, a delinquency-prevention planning program in Washington, D.C. sponsored by the President's Committee on Juvenile Delinquency and Youth Crime from 1962-1964.He returned to Syracuse University from 1964-1966.In July 1965 he introduced his Morehouse College classmate, Martin Luther King Jr. at a speech at Syracuse University.