| 2. Editorial
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The aim of the collection is to provide the non-fiction works of leading African-Americans so that scholars and students can appreciate the development of African American thought from its beginnings to the present.
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Sharon Harley, Editor
Associate Professor and Director of the Afro-American Studies Program at the University of Maryland, College Park, Dr. Harley teaches courses on Afro-American History, Black Culture, Women's History and Women and Work. She received her Ph.D. in United States History from the Department of History at Howard University and is the recipient of numerous scholarships and fellowships, including the Smithsonian Postdoctoral Fellowship, the Rockefeller Fellowship for Minority Group Scholars, the American Association of University Women, and the Ford Foundation. Her major recent publication the Timetables of African American History: A Chronology of the Most Important People and Events in African-American History (Simon & Schuster, 1995) has been adopted as a selection for the History Book Club and the Book-of-the-Month club. She has written articles for the Journal of Negro History, the Journal of Negro Education and a forthcoming issue of the Journal of Labor History and contributed essays to numerous publications including Sisters in the Struggle: African-American Women in the Civil Rights and Black Power Movements (New York University Press, 2001), Women and Work: Exploring Race, Ethnicity and Class (Sage, 1997), and Nineteenth Century Black Leaders (University of Illinois Press, 1988). She is also editor of Sister Circle: Black Women and Work (Rutgers University Press, 2002). Currently, she is under contract with W.W. Norton Publishers to publish a book entitled Dignity and Damnation, an historical study of the intersection of gender and women's work in the black community. Formerly Associate Dean for Undergraduate Studies at UMCP, Dr. Harley serves as a member of the Maryland Council for the Humanities, consultant to the Office of Equity Assurance and the Office of Staff Development for the Prince George's County School System, and directs the Prince George's County Teachers Institute in Multiculturalism at the University of Maryland. In 1994 she received a presidential award for Outstanding Service to the Schools for her work with the Prince George's County School System. Dr. Harley is currently on leave from UMCP to undertake a fellowship at the Smithsonian Institution’s Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. She is also currently the co-principal investigator of the Ford Foundation-funded "The Meanings and Representations of Work in the Lives of Women of Color" and the principal investigator and project director of the Ford Foundation planning project "The Center for African-American Women's Labor Studies." |
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Clayborn Carson
Since receiving his doctorate from UCLA in 1975 Dr. Carson has taught at Stanford University, where he is now professor of history and director of the King Papers Project. Dr. Carson has also been a visiting professor at American University, the University of California, Berkeley, and Emory University as well as a Fellow at the Center for the Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford. Dr. Carson’s writings have appeared in leading historical journals and numerous encyclopedias, as well as in popular periodicals. His first book, In Struggle: SNCC and the Black Awakening of the 1960s, a study of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, was published in 1981. In Struggle won the Frederick Jackson Turner Award of the Organization of American Historians. His other publications include Malcolm X: The FBI File (1991). Dr. Carson also served as senior advisor for a fourteen-part, award-winning, public television series on the civil rights movement entitled "Eyes on the Prize" and co-edited the Eyes on the Prize Civil Rights Reader (1991). In addition, he served as historical advisor for “Freedom on My Mind,” which was nominated for an Oscar in 1995, as well as for “Chicano!” (1996) and “Blacks and Jews” (1997). In 1985 Coretta Scott King invited Dr. Carson to direct a long-term project to edit and publish the papers of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Under Dr. Carson’s direction, the King Papers Project has produced four volumes of a projected fourteen-volume comprehensive edition of King’s speeches, sermons, correspondence, publications, and unpublished writings. In addition to these volumes, he has written or co-edited numerous other works based on the papers, including A Knock at Midnight: Inspiration from the Great Sermons of Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr. (1998); The Autobiography of Martin Luther King, Jr. (1998), compiled from the King’s autobiographical writings; and A Call to Conscience: The Landmark Speeches of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2001). He also collaborated with Roma Design Group of San Francisco to create the winning proposal in an international competition to design a national memorial in Washington, D. C., for Dr. King. Dr. Carson has lectured at many colleges and universities in the United States and abroad on a wide range of topics including King, Malcolm X, the Black Panther Party, and Black-Jewish relations. He has also presented dramatic readings of "Passages of Martin Luther King." Currently he participates in the Organization of American Historians Lectureship Program. |
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Russell L. Adams
Dr. Russell L. Adams, Chairman of the Afro-American Studies Department at Howard University, has taught a "Comparative Slavery" course for over 20 years. He has been advisor and consultant to several projects on the Middle Passage. He is the author of the popular biographical reference work Great Negroes Past and Present. A popular keynote speaker, Adams has lectured at many universities, including the University of Maryland, Columbia University, Georgetown University, Rutgers University and Harvard University. Adams has published several books and edited collections, and his work has appeared in numerous periodicals. He writes and reviews articles for the Journal of Negro Education. He also served as a primary adviser and contributor to the three-volume Time-Life series African Americans: Voices of Triumph. |