1962 Euclid Ave
San Diego
California 92105
Carrol Waymon, educator and champion of racial equality, 1925-2020
Please come and pay respects to this San Diego legend!
A viewing will be held 5 p.m. Jan. 23 at Anderson-Ragsdale Funeral Home, 5050 Federal Blvd., San Diego.
A funeral service is planned for 11 a.m. Jan. 24 at Bethel Baptist Church, 1962 Euclid Ave., San Diego.
“To be Black in San Diego,” Waymon wrote in “On Being Black in San Diego — Anytown USA,” his 2004 book, “is to forever wonder why, on the one hand, this is such a great place to live, and on the other hand feel so isolated and depressed at the same time. Why is it that so many Blacks in all walks and successful levels in this town feel that so few things have brought so little positive change?”
A lifelong jazz aficionado, Waymon spent decades on the Jackie Robinson YMCA board, volunteered with Somali Youth United, and late in life became co-owner of Awash, an Ethiopian restaurant in San Diego. Among his numerous honors was the KPBS “Local Hero” award and the Jackie Robinson YMCA’s Human Dignity Award, both bestowed in 2013
After earning a Ph.D in education, Waymon founded what is now known as the Africana Studies Department at San Diego State University. In 1977, he began a 33-year association with Mesa College, teaching psychology, sociology and anthropology.
