He staged a series of creative protests that promoted policies of radical integrationism and challenged "the exclusion of blacks in the media.
"[1] For example, he stood on a street corner with television sets tuned to various channels and offered a dollar to whoever saw a black person on the screens (in six days there were 15 sightings).
[3] His younger sister, Doris Funnye Innis also became an active member of the Congress of Racial Equality serving as the Editor for its publications, Rights and Reviews and CORE Magazine.
He attended North Carolina A&T, a historically black university, majoring in architectural engineering, after serving a tour in the Army.
They settled in Brooklyn, where he studied City and Regional Planning at Pratt Institute, and earned a Master's Degree, while he worked for the Army Pictorial Center.