1969: Meeting of worlds

President W. Seavey Joyce, SJ, with two honorary degree recipients: Henry Lee Shattuck (left), a Boston attorney, civic leader, and notable Boston Brahmin, and A. Philip Randolph, a minister’s son from Florida who became a prominent civil rights leader and labor organizer, and who in 1969 had just stepped down from 43 years as founding president of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters.