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Lois Carson

Lois Carson’s legacy looms large over the Inland Empire. Black Future Leaders is one of the many organizations she helped found. While directing Upward Bound at UC Riverside (UCR), Carson recognized that few programs focused solely on high-achieving Black youth. Jean Peacock reached out to Lois Carson in 1985 to help establish Black Future Leaders, with the goal to expose high-achieving African American students to university campuses throughout the region via field trips and summer residences to UCR, California State University, San Bernardino, and the University of Redlands. In 2016, Carson remarked that Black Future Leaders had a 95-99 percent college-going rate with numerous successful alumni in fields ranging from medicine and architecture to poetry.

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