As chair of the NAACP Education Committee, he argued their case to the Board of Education (see  BOE minutes, page 154)   and later became the only white president of the Howard County branch of the NAACP.
He played a key role as chair of the NAACP Education Committee, presenting their case before the Board of Education (as recorded in BOE minutes, page 154), and subsequently took on the distinctive position of leading the only predominantly white chapter of the NAACP in Howard County.