Occupation-Educator-University Professor
Angella Dorothea Ferguson (1925- )
Angella Ferguson is best known as a medical researcher. Her pioneering research focused on the development of the sickle cell...
Gloria Conyers Hewitt (1935- )
Born October 26, 1935 in Sumter, South Carolina, Gloria Conyers Hewitt grew up persistent. Her father, Emmett C. Conyers, and...
James E. Walton (1944-2019)
James E. Walton, longtime professor of English at California State University, Fresno, was born on September 13, 1944 in Bessemer,...
Renty B. Franklin (1945- )
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Through his groundbreaking research on hormones and mineral levels in the blood, Dr. Renty Benjamin Franklin, a physiologist, made major contributions...
Joseph L. White (1932-2017)
Joseph L. White, known as the “Father of Black Psychology,” for exposing the implicit whiteness in the field of psychology, including...
Kimberle Williams Crenshaw (1959- )
Kimberle Crenshaw is a Professor of Law and an advocate and educator for civil rights, race studies, constitutional law, and...
Sylvester James Gates (1950- )
The theoretical physicist Sylvester James Gates, known for his work in supersymmetry, string theory, superconformal algebra, Adinkra symbols, and bihermitian...
Lorenzo Dow Turner (1890-1972)
Lorenzo Dow Turner was an African American linguist who headed the English department at Howard University in Washington, D.C. from...
Emory Hestus Holmes (1924-1995)
Dr. Emory Hestus Holmes, World War II veteran, social scientist, professor, and California civil rights leader, was born on November...
