| Summary: | Academic administrator, civil rights leader, and priest James Pleasant Breeden was born on October 14, 1934 in Minneapolis, Minnesota. In 1956, Breeden graduated cum laude from Dartmouth College with his B.A. degree. In 1960, Breeden graduated from Union Theological Seminary with his M.Div degree. From 1960 through 1965, in Boston the Episcopal Diocese of Massachusetts as a deacon, priest and canon. Breeden was heavily involved in the Civil Rights Movement. In 1967, Breeden became the director for the commission on church and race for the Massachusetts Council of Churches. In 1969, Breeden joined the faculty at Harvard Graduate School of Education and earned his Ed.D. degree. Breeden became a Senior Officer for Planning and Policy at Boston Public Schools in 1980, a dean at Dartmouth College in 1984, a visiting scholar at the Howard Graduate School of Education 1994, and adjunct faculty at the School for International Training in 2001.
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