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He is a
graduate of Compton High School and Harvard University,
with a Masters in Education Administration, Research and
Development.
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His work
experiences range from his beginning as a street corner
youth gang prevention worker in Watts and East Los
Angeles, moving on to institutional and community Parole
Officer and later as Director of an experimental in San
Bernardino and Riverside Counties. While working as a
Parole Officer in the California State Prisons and on the
streets of Watts and East L.A., he took leave and with
guidance from Mrs. Gwen Green, he relocated to Alabama,
Carolina and Georgia where he worked directly for Dr.
Martin Luther King, Jr. in the Voter Registration Projects
of CORE and SCLC.
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While
working for the California State Office of the Governor,
he authored the Dove Counterbalance IQ Test, which
became more popularly known as the "Chitling Test"
which is still used regularly in many Universities
nationwide. Mr. Dove, also devised and Co-Authored the
original "Philadelphia Plan", during his
tenure as Deputy Assistant National Director of Contract
Compliance in the US Department of Labor. He also wrote
articles in the New York Times, Readers Digest, Jet
Magazine and others on the nature of race in America.
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Adrian
Dove, an Army Veteran, subsequently served five years as a
Senior Budget Examiner and Management Analyst in the White
House, Office of Management and Budget in Washington, DC.
During this period he played a key role in the1969
initiation of the District of Columbia's first local
voting in its entire history. He served as liaison
from the White House to the Philadelphia Region during the
D.C. Home Rule negotiations and the transition of the
Philadelphia Plan into the succeeding White House
administrations for its survival. He organize the Caucus
of Blacks in the White House and assisted increasing
the number of African Americans in the White House from
four professionals to more than 120 during the Nixon
Administration.
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He
returned to California to serve as Charter Director of Los
Angeles City's Small Business Agency and simultaneously as
Business liaison and Executive Assistant to the Mayor Tom
Bradley. He is also the Charter Board Secretary of the Tom
Bradley Legacy Foundation, Inc. at UCLA.
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In 1991,
Mr. Dove was contracted by the County of Los Angeles as
Demographer Drafter of the revised maps and justifications
for the 7 and 9 District initiative plans for the Los
Angeles County ballot. Under a separate contract he also
developed a set of statewide plans and delivered the Oral
Arguments. As mandated before the California State Supreme
Court and its Panel of Masters for the Decennial
Redistricting of Assembly, Senate and Congressional
Districts.
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Mr. Dove
served as a Regional Director of HUD for EEO, Fair
Employment and Fair Housing and later, during the 1990
Census as the U.S. Census Bureau's, Regional Director for
Media, Data Utilization Outreach and Local Government
Relations (including liaison to all Native American Tribal
Locations throughout the state of California).
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For the
past 10 years he has worked as a writer and as President
of A.D. & Associates, a Management Consulting firm.
His principal clients included most of the large Prime
Construction and Engineering Firms in Southern California,
doing work for the MTA and Municipal Governments
Infrastructure elements. During the past two years he and
and his firm have served as Personal Advisors on Economic
Development to the Government to the Royal Kingdom of
Cambodia. During this same period he has also served as a
L.A. County Commissioner of Human Relations and as
President of CORE-California having performed the 1991 and
2001 Redistricting process for CORE and other
organizations including delivering Oral Arguments before
the California Bar to deliver these by Mr. Dove for the
Los Angeles area in 1992 were significantly adopted by the
Supreme Court and remained in place for ten years while
affording a continuation of the same number of African
American legislators during that entire period.
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In 2002
he was called upon by Celes King III to become his
successor by moving from the role of State President to
that of State Chairman of CORE-CA, the Congress of Racial
Equality of California, with General King himself
ascending to the role of Chairman Emeritus.
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As State
Chairman of CORE-CA, Adrian Dove, is determined to
continue the legacy of his predecessor Celes King III, and
he and his very strong board will be initiating several
new initiatives as well. In addition to the handing of a
steady flow of complaints. CORE-CA is engaged in producing
trailblazing applied research to better human conditions
especially especially those of African Americans in the
state of California. Anyone interested in joining or
supporting the newly invigorated California Congress of
Racial Equality, Inc., should contact Adrian Dove or Ron
Herbert at 323-296 5464. On Saturday August 9, 2003,
CORE-CA, will be joining with several other groups to
sponsor the Second Annual Health Awareness Street from
noon to 5:00pm at the corner of Martin Luther King and
Denker in South Los Angeles. Everyone is Welcome.
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