Occupation-University Professor
Stanley Crouch (1945-2020)
Stanley Crouch was a tough-minded and controversial jazz critic, playwright, essayist, novelist, and percussionist. After a personal intellectual transformation in...
James M. Nabrit, Jr. (1900-1997)
James Madison Nabrit, Jr. was a renowned civil rights lawyer, Howard University president, and United Nations deputy ambassador. During his...
John W. Blassingame (1940-2000)
John Wesley Blassingame was one of the preeminent scholars in the study of enslaved African Americans. His early monographs The...
Samuel Milton Nabrit (1905-2003)
A marine biologist, academic, and administrator, Samuel Milton Nabrit was born in Macon, Georgia, to James Madison Nabrit and Gertrude...
Saint Elmo Brady (1884-1966)
Born in Louisville, Kentucky in 1884, Saint Elmo Brady became the first African American to earn a Ph.D. in the...
Charles Z. Smith (1927-2016)
On July 18, 1988, Charles Z. Smith became the first African American to serve on the Washington Supreme Court. He...
Mark Dean (1957- )
Dr. Mark Dean, an American inventor and computer engineer, is one of the most important figures in the emergence of...
Allison Davis (1902-1983)
(William) Allison Davis graduated from Williams College with a B.A. degree in 1924, an M.A. from Harvard University in 1925...
Horace Mann Bond (1904-1972)
Horace Mann Bond served as the first president of Fort Valley State College from 1939 to 1945 and president of...
