Urban Affairs at Hunter College in New York and taught there until 1978. Personal life and death In 1935, Robert C. Weaver married Ella V. Haith. They adopted a son, who died in 1962. Weavers served on the boards of Metropolitan Life Insurance Company (1969–1978) and Bowery Savings Bank (1969–1980). He served in advisory capacities to the United States Controller General (1973–1997), the New City Conciliation and Appeals Board (1973–1984), Harvard University School of Design (1978–1983), the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) Legal Defense Fund and NAACP executive board committee (1978–1997). Robert C. Weaver died at age 89 on July 17, 1997, in Manhattan, New York. Honors Weaver received more than 30 honorary university degrees, as well as the following: 1962: NAACP Spingarn Medal 1963: Russworm Award 1968: Albert Einstein Commemorative Award Merrick Moore Spaulding Award 1975: Public Service Award of the US General Accounting Office 1977: Frederick Douglass Award of the New York City Urban League 1978: Schomberg Collection Award 1985: Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences 1987: Equal Opportunity Day Award of the National Urban League Legacy 2000: Robert C. Weaver Federal Building HUD headquarters (which Weaver had dedicated in 1968) 2006: "Robert Clifton Weaver Way" NE in Washington, DC Undated: "Robert Weaver Avenue" "Robert Weaver Circle" in Austin, Texas Works Weaver wrote a number of books regarding black issues and urban housing, including: Negro Labor: A National Problem (1946) The Negro Ghetto (1948) The Urban Complex: Human Values in Urban Life (1964) Dilemmas of Urban America (1965) Herbert Aptheker reviewed The Negro Ghetto in the August 1948 issue of Masses and Mainstream (successor to the New Masses magazine). See also List of African-American United States Cabinet members J. Raymond Jones Harlem Clubhouse References Further reading John C. Walker, The Harlem Fox: J. Raymond Jones at Tammany 1920–1970, New York: State University New York Press, 1989. Primary sources "Weaver, Robert Clifton". Infoplease Speech by Robert Weaver given on April 8, 1969. Audio recording from The University of Alabama's Emphasis Symposium on Contemporary Issues President Johnson discussed Weaver's possible nomination as secretary of HUD with major leaders across the country: Telephone Conversation between President Johnson and Martin Luther King Jr., 15 January 1965, 12:06pm, Citation # 6736, Recordings of Telephone Conversations, Lyndon B. Johnson Presidential Library Telephone Conversation between President Johnson and Richard Daley, 15 September 1965, 9:40am, Citation # 8870, Recordings of Telephone