Occupation – Education – University Professor – HIstorian
Jacob Hudson Carruthers Jr. (1930-2004)
Jacob Hudson Carruthers Jr. was a historian and educator. Carruthers was born on February 15, 1930, to unnamed parents in...
Georgette M. Norman (1946- )
Historian, thespian, activist Georgette M. Norman was born on January 27, 1946, in Montgomery, Alabama, to George Maggie Norman, a...
Ed Dwight (1933- )
Ed Dwight, the first African American astronaut candidate, IBM computer systems engineer, real estate developer, professional sculptor, and former Air...
William Robert Harvey (1941- )
William Robert Harvey is an educator, businessman, academic administrator, and the longest-serving tenured HBCU president in history, as the 12th...
David Clyde Driskell (1931-2020)
David Clyde Driskell was an artist, art historian, curator, and professor. He was known as one of the world’s leading...
Alton Hornsby, Jr. (1940-2017)
Alton Parker Hornsby, Jr., author, historian and professor, was born on September 3, 1940 in Atlanta, Georgia to Lillie Mae...
Ralph L. Crowder (1947-2020)
Historian and scholar Dr. Ralph Le Roy Crowder was born on March 29, 1947 in Des Moines, Iowa, to parents...
James Nathaniel Eaton, Sr. (1930-2004)
James N. Eaton, archivist, curator, museum founder, distinguished professor of history and pioneering architect of the Black studies movement in...
David Levering Lewis (1936- )
David L. Lewis is a twice Pulitzer Prize-winning historian. He was born on May 25, 1936, in Little Rock, Arkansas,...
