E. Culpepper Clark, dean of the Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication, was honored for his contributions to Alabama’s “Realizing the Dream” initiative in a banquet ceremony in Tuscaloosa on Jan. 16.
Clark, a civil rights historian and former dean of the University of Alabama College of Communication and Information Sciences, was instrumental in the development of the Realizing the Dream program and was honored with a Sustaining the Dream Award.
The Realizing the Dream initiative began in 1990 at the University of Alabama to celebrate the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.