Occupation-University Professor
Richard Lee Davis (1951?- )
Richard L. Davis is a distinguished historian of middle-period and late imperial China. He was born in Buffalo, New York...
Ples Sterling Stuckey, Jr. (1932-2018)
Ples Sterling Stuckey, Jr. was a professor of history best known for his impact on shifting slavery studies from examinations...
Dolphus Milligan (1928-1973)
Dolphus Milligan was an internationally acclaimed American chemist, best known for his spectroscopic studies of free radicals and other reactive molecules....
James Tyson Tildon (1931-2006)
Chemist James Tyson Tildon was born August 7, 1931 in Baltimore, Maryland. As a young boy he had an innate curiosity for...
Geraldine Pittman Woods (1921-1999)
Geraldine Woods is known for her lifelong dedication in using science to contribute to community service, and her establishment of programs that give...
Ivan Van Sertima (1935-2009)
Throughout his career as a scholar and author, Ivan Van Sertima worked to transform the way people viewed and taught African history. Van Sertima...
Katie Geneva Cannon (1950-2018)
Rev. Dr. Katie Cannon was the first African American woman to be ordained into the United Presbyterian USA denomination. Rev. Cannon was...
Odette Harris (1970- )
In 2018, Dr. Odette Harris of Stanford University in California became the second African American female professor of neurosurgery in the United States, following Dr. Alexa Canady who...
Pierrette Herzberger-Fofana (1949- )
Afro-German politician, human rights activist, and scholar Pierrette Herzberger-Fofana was born in Bamako, Mali, but grew up in Dakar, Senegal, the daughter of a Cape Verdean mother, Dona...
