Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. George Alvin Wiley (26 February 1931 - 8 August 1973) was an American chemist and civil rights leader. Wiley earned his undergraduate degree at the University of Rhode Island in 1953; received a doctorate in organic chemistry from Cornell University in 1957; fulfilled a six-month ROTC obligation as a first lieutenant in the United States Army at Fort Lee, Virginia; and subsequently accepted a post-doctoral fellowship at the University of California, Los Angeles. Wiley taught for two years at the University of California, Berkeley, whereupon he took a teaching position at Syracuse University in 1960. That same year, he founded the Syracuse chapter of Congress of Racial Equality. He later founded the National Welfare Rights Organization.