| Summary: | Educator Robert C. Hayden, Jr., was born in New Bedford, Massachusetts on August 21, 1937. After high school, he attended Boston University, earning his B.A. degree in 1959 and his master's degree in education in 1961. From there, Hayden attended Harvard University and MIT, earning advanced certificates from both. After completing his master's degree, Hayden worked as a science teacher until 1965. In 1973, he became the project director for the Educational Development Center where he remained for seven years. Hayden worked for the Boston Public Schools in 1982 where he was the executive assistant to the superintendent. In 1992, he became a lecturer at the University of Massachusetts-Boston. Hayden taught at numerous other schools in the Boston area, and served as a scholar-in-residence at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture in New York. He authored sixteen books on African American history, and was a contributing author to numerous publications.
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