Author, Historian & Educator
After graduating from Syracuse University with a BA in history in 1950 and from New York University in 1952 with an MA in Secondary Education, Katz taught social studies in New York City and State secondary schools and served as a curriculum consultant for 14 years.

Since 1967 he has been a lecturer and consultant for Boards of Education from Seattle, Washington to Dade County, Florida, including the Inner London Education Authority and the Education Departments of North Carolina and New York.

Since 1968, he has been interviewed on Gil Noble's award-winning television program Like It Is. He has also appeared on NBC's The Today Show, PBS's Tony Brown's Journal and many other major network television programs. He has hosted his own history interview program on WBAI-FM on Pacifica Radio in New York City and sincce 1986 has served as the station's Historian in Residence. He is often interviewed on Native American, African American and National Public Radio stations across the country. He has spoken on the much overlooked alliance that has been shaped by Africans and Indigenous Americans for more than 500 years.

Since 1986 his "Education and Books" column has appeared in the New York Daily Challenge. His essays have also appeared in The New York Times, American Legacy Magazine and Web sites, The Black World Today and Global Black News.

William Katz has been consultant to the Smithsonian Institute, a committee of the British House of Commons and a committee of the US Senate. He has served as a Scholar-in-Residence at Teachers College, Columbia University and at New York University.

White Dove Award Winner
The White Dove-Imani-Rainbow Lodge, a Whitehall, Ohio Peace and Reconciliation Ministry awarded its 2000 White Dove Peace Award to William Loren Katz. Tessie Nellie-Moriah Belue, founder and director of White Dove-Imani-Rainbow Lodge announced Mr. Katz as the first recipient of its White Dove Peace Award in The Four Winds the ministry's quarterly newsletter. It describes him as one "whose life and work exemplify a sincere desire to promote peace and reconciliation and serve as a bridge between African and Native American people." The Ministry believed that his books, lectures and articles promote understanding among people of African and Native-American descent they merit wide recognition.

While the White Dove Peace Award consists solely of a simple certificate, Ms. Belue said, "Mr. Katz was a Peacemaker"; and this honor recognizes his outstanding contributions to harmony among African Americans and Native Americans. Future White Dove Peace Award recipients, she said, will receive Katz' "Black Indians" and a certificate. Tessie Nellie-Moriah Belue and the author met last year when Mr. Katz presented his slide lecture on "Black Indians" at Children's Hospital in Columbus, Ohio. An African American of Cherokee descent, Ms. Belue has often cited "Black Indians" in The Four Winds newsletter, which seeks to promote reconciliation between black and red people.

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