Edward Vaughn was an American politician, businessman, and activist who served as a member of the Michigan House of Representatives from 1979 to 1980 and again from 1995 to 2000.
19 Facts About Edward Vaughn
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Edward Vaughn earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in history and government from Fisk University and attended the University of Illinois College of Law for one year.
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Edward Vaughn served in the United States Army and worked for the United States Postal Service.
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Edward Vaughn later opened a Black Power bookstore, supported by minister and writer Albert Cleage.
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Edward Vaughn has been called an "understated Black Power icon" by Literary Hub.
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Ed Edward Vaughn co-founded the Pan-African Congress-USA in Detroit, an organization that was formed to establish ties with African countries and supported the liberation struggle against white minority rule on the continent.
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Edward Vaughn briefly attended Malcolm X Liberation University in Greensboro, North Carolina.
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Edward Vaughn's books are found in university and public libraries around the world.
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Ed Edward Vaughn was one of the leading African American delegates to the Sixth Pan-African Congress who met with President Nyerere and had private conversations with him.
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Edward Vaughn said Nyerere told him he refused to send Babu to Zanzibar to stand trial because he was afraid they were going to kill him, as they did in 1969 another union cabinet member Abdullah Kassim Hanga who was a close friend of Guinea's President Ahmed Sekou Toure.
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Babu was a very close friend of Amiri Baraka and Malcolm X Ed Vaughn knew Malcolm X They first met in Detroit in 1963.
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Ed Edward Vaughn met and talked to Ugandan military head of state Idi Amin when he was in Africa in 1974, as Godfrey Mwakikagile has explained in his book Reflections on Race Relations: A Personal Odyssey.
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Edward Vaughn taught history in Detroit from a black nationalist perspective and lectured for many years on a wide range of issues affecting the wellbeing of black people in the United States and Africa.
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On November 7,1978, Edward Vaughn was first elected to the Michigan House of Representatives, where he represented the 8th district from January 10,1979 to December 31,1980.
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On November 8,1994, Edward Vaughn was again elected to in the state house where he represented the 4th district from January 11,1995 until he was term limited on December 31,2000.
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Edward Vaughn served as executive assistant to Detroit's first black mayor Coleman Young and was an unsuccessful candidate for the Michigan Senate seat representing the 2nd district in 2001.
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In 2000, Edward Vaughn participated in a forum hosted by the Congressional Black Caucus, in which he advocated for slavery reparations.
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In 2018, Edward Vaughn's writings were collected and donated to the library of Wayne State University.
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Edward Vaughn died on October 8,2024, at the age of 90.