Clifton R. Wharton Jr., Who Broke Racial Barriers, Is Dead at 98

Clifton R. Wharton Jr., Who Broke Racial Barriers, Is Dead at 98

He was the first African American to become president of a large white university, C.E.O. of a major corporation and deputy secretary of state.

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