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Marvin Bailey Scott (born March 10, 1944) is an American
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and university professor in
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. He is a nationally known figure for his involvement in
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cases. Scott ran for political office several times and continues to be politically active. Scott was nominated by President
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and was affirmed by the
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to serve on the National Council for the Humanities. On one occasion, he chaired the Digital Humanities Committee, where he regularly served as a member. He served on the Indianapolis Waterworks Board and during his last year of service as its president until April 2012. He has served as the governor's appointee to the Mid-West Interstate Passenger Rail Commission until September 2012. Scott is an active lifelong board member on the Crossroads of America Council,
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. He has been a member of the Boy Scouts of America for 51 years.


Background

Scott was born in
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. He earned his bachelor's degree from Johnson C. Smith University in
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, with one year of studies at the
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,
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, and his Master's and Doctorate of Philosophy (1970) from the
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. He is married with four children. Scott currently works for
Butler University Butler University is a private university in Indianapolis, Indiana, United States. Founded in 1855 and named after founder Ovid Butler, the university has over 60 major academic fields of study within six colleges in the arts, business, communic ...
teaching
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, specifically issues concerning race. During his 25 years at Butler, he has served as special assistant to the President, Assistant Dean of Graduate Studies in the School of Education, Professor of Education in the College of Education, and Professor and Chair of the Sociology and
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Department. Scott was a member of the Professional Standards Committee at Butler. Prior to joining Butler University, Scott was a program officer for Higher Education at
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, President of Saint Paul's College, and Assistant to the Chancellor for the Board of Regents for the
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. At
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, he was the W. E. B. DuBois Lecturer, Professor, Associate Dean of Education, and Assistant to the Provost and President. Scott spent one year as special assistant to the President of the
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system and as an adjunct professor, during which time he was also an ACE Fellow. Scott served on the board of directors for the Indianapolis City Theater. At St. Paul's College, located in Lawrenceville, Virginia, Scott created a program for
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and their children, which received national acclaim. Scott was selected as a president participant in the Christian A. Johnson Leadership Seminars and the Johnson Foundation, and as an
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(ACE) Fellow. He has been a National and International consultant in Europe and five countries in
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. Scott has had offices in
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and
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. In Naples, he served as director of the Boston University overseas education program. He has traveled and spoken nationally and internationally. He has traveled throughout
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,
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,
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,
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,
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, The
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,
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, the Congo, and
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. Scott also served as a consultant to
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in Africa. Scott figured prominently in five federal desegregation cases (in the Boston School case as a Court Appointed Expert). He currently serves on the Regional and Local Council of the Boy Scouts of America. He has been awarded the
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Patriots Award by the governor of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, the
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for distinguished service to the Boy Scouts of America, and an Honorary
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Degree from
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. Scott was also President of Saint Paul's College for two years, Assistant Chancellor of the
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for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts for five years, Assistant to the Provost, and Associate Dean and Professor at Boston University for eleven years. Scott served as a first, second, and third reader on various dissertations at Boston University.


Political career

In 2010, Scott ran as a Republican for the
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in the Indiana 7th Congressional District against incumbent Andre Carson. Scott lost the election in the historically Democratic district, but still won 44% of the vote against Carson. In 2004, Scott ran for the United States Senate in Indiana against incumbent
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. Although he lost, he garnered nearly a million votes, coming to 37.2%. In 1994, Scott also ran for the House in the Indiana 10th Congressional District against incumbent Andrew Jacobs. Scott lost the election but got 47.5% of the overall vote in the district. He lost by only 7,575 votes. Scott is a member of
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,
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, Alpha Kappa Mu,
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, and
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. He has spoken at the
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, Indiana Republican State Convention and numerous venues across the United States. For seven years, he served as a talk show host on
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,
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, and at other radio outlets WPLZ,
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, and WHNC, Henderson, North Carolina. Scott continues to be an active political figure, especially due to his prominent role in watershed desegregation cases like the Boston Desegregation Case of 1974.


Desegregation activism

Scott played a prominent role in numerous cases involving the
desegregation Racial integration, or simply integration, includes desegregation (the process of ending systematic racial segregation), leveling barriers to association, creating equal opportunity regardless of race, and the development of a culture that draws ...
of U.S. public schools, including the Morgan v. Hennigan Boston desegregation case of 1974. As the Associate Dean of the School of Education at Boston University, Scott, along with Robert Dentler, then Dean of the School of Education at Boston University, was appointed as a sociological expert. He was appointed to help Judge W. Arthur Garrity to assist in the
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desegregation plan. Scott played a primary role in the desegregation plan, which became paramount in the
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struggle within U.S. public education. Scott and Dentler coauthored ''Schools on Trial'', a book published in 1981 about the case and their role in it. In the book, they state, "Desegregation has been achieved in Boston. Quality integrated education will take longer." Most recently, Scott was an appointed court exported to the King County, Ohio School District Desegregation case from July 7, 2006-July 2010. Scott co-chaired on the Community Desegregation Advisory Council (CDAC) of Indianapolis in 1990, with seven area superintendents, Judge S. Hugh Dillin and CDAC members. In this council, he was directly involved in school desegregation for the Indianapolis Public Schools system. In the September 1991 to December 1992 case Christopher Armstrong et al. v. The Board of Trustees of Clark County in
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, Scott served as an expert witness. In this trial, he played a key role in the desegregation of the
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of Las Vegas. Scott served as an
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in the Robert Anthony Reed v. James Rhodes and Cleveland Board of Education, which desegregated the Cleveland Public Schools. Within this context, he worked with Tom Atkins, who was the lead attorney for the
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. He also served as a consultant to the Cleveland Public Schools/Review of Pupil Assignments between January 1985 and May 1988. Scott also acted as the arbitrator/negotiator in the Bronson v. Cincinnati Board of Education case from December 1983 to February 1984, which desegregated public schools in
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.


Articles and Publications

* "Patriotic Speech and Symbolism in Black and White Churches as an Indicator of Value Assimilation among Voluntary versus Involuntary Immigrants" * "
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and
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: Are Reconciliation and Church Integration Possible Among Black and White Christians" * "
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into the Twenty-First Century: Revision and Survival" * "The Effect of Teacher Perception of Personality Factors on the Cognitive and Affective Learning of black Students" * "Playing at Affirmative Action" * "Acceptance of Minority Student
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Characteristics by Black and White Teachers" * Authored a chapter in "The Future of Big City Schools: Desegregation Policies and Magnet Alternatives" He co-authored several books: * "The Essential Profession: Contemporary Issues in Education" * "Five Essential Dimensions of
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Design: A Handbook for Teachers" * "Schools on Trial, An Inside Account of the Boston Desegregation Case" Scott's latest research for publication was in
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before the Indiana Academy of Social Sciences," Ruling by Court on Segregation is Opposed Here: School Desegregation Evasion and Compliance in Vance County, North Carolina", October 9, 2015.


References


External links


Marvin Scott's campaign site (web archive)

Personal page at Butler University
* {{DEFAULTSORT:Scott, Marvin 1944 births Living people Johnson C. Smith University alumni University of Allahabad alumni University of Pittsburgh alumni 21st-century African-American academics 21st-century American academics African-American people in Indiana politics Indiana Republicans Politicians from Indianapolis Butler University faculty Saint Paul's College (Virginia) People from Henderson, North Carolina Evan Bayh