James Joseph, a former civil rights activist who served as U.S. ambassador to South Africa while the country’s first Black leader, Nelson Mandela, sought Western help in rebuilding a battered economy and battling the AIDS crisis, died Feb. 17.
in 2013, Mr. Joseph reflected on the contrasts of his role in South Africa: conveying U.S. policy while empathizing with Mandela’s “plea for a partnership between rich and poor nations rather than benevolent big brother dominance.”
James Alfred Joseph was born on the family farm in Plaisance, La., on March 12, 1935. He spent much of his boyhood in nearby Opelousas, a Ku Klux Klan stronghold.
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