Fred Anderson

Fred Anderson was born (1947) in Hattiesburg, Mississippi. He left home at an early age to join the Civil Rights Movement-becoming a field secretary for the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC)- organizing in the Mississippi delta, Alabama, and Southwest Georgia. He refused to be drafted into the Vietnam War and fled to Montreal (Quebec) Canada in November 1966. He attended Sir George Williams University and was awarded the 1973 Board of Governors Medal for Creative expression in Literary arts. Fred was instrumental in co-founding two black research institutes, and a black literary forum. He was employed as a program manager, overseeing, gender-specific and therapeutic interventions for several English-speaking social services and rehabilitation centres for adolescent girls. Later, he would assume the same responsibility in the Quebec Arctic in the service of Inuit and Cree adolescent girls. He now devotes his time to writing and wildlife photography.