The Black Scholars Index

Georgiana Simpson: One of the 1st African-American Women to Obtain a PhD in America

Posted on03. Mar, 2010 by Leshell Hatley.

Three African American women earned PhDs at American universities in 1921; they were the first African American women to do so. Georgiana Simpson was one. We will feature the other to Thursday and Friday of this week.

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Dr. Joy DeGruy: Researcher, Motivational Speaker, Author, Educator

Posted on22. Feb, 2010 by Leshell Hatley.

Dr. Joy DeGruy is a nationally and internationally renowned researcher, educator, author and presenter. Dr. Joy, as most know her, is a tell-it-like-it-is ambassador for healing and a voice for those who’ve struggled in search of the past, and continue to struggle through the present.

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IN MEMORIAM: Our Thoughts and Prayers for the Families, Friends, of the 3 Victims of the Horrible Univ of Alabama Shooting – 2 of the 3 were African American

Posted on19. Feb, 2010 by Leshell Hatley.

Our thoughts are with the families, colleagues, and friends of the three victims of the horrific shootings that took place last Friday on the campus of the University of Alabama at Huntsville.

We note that two of the three professors shot and killed at a meeting of the biology department faculty were African Americans – Dr. Maria Ragland Davis & Dr. Adriel D. Johnson

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Dr. Frances Cress Welsing: Author of The Isis Paper

Posted on18. Feb, 2010 by Leshell Hatley.

Dr. Frances Cress Welsing is the author of The Isis Papers and creator of the Cress-Welsing theory analyzing the nature of white supremacy. She is a psychiatrist in Washington, DC.

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Ivan Van Sertima: Historian, Linguist, Anthropologist, and Author

Posted on15. Feb, 2010 by Leshell Hatley.

Ivan Gladstone Van Sertima (26 January 1935 – 25 May 2009) was a historian, linguist and anthropologist at Rutgers University in the United States. He was noted for his Afrocentric theory of pre-Columbian contact between Africa and the Americas. His work was severely criticized.

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[HBCU Presidents] Horace Mann Bond: 1st Black President of Fort Valley State College & Lincoln University

Posted on02. Feb, 2010 by Leshell Hatley.

One of the most respected and influential black educators and intellectuals of the mid-20th century, Horace Mann Bond was at the forefront of black education and civil rights throughout his career – as teacher and key administrator at Fisk University, Dillard University, Fort Valley State College (president, 1939 – 1945), Lincoln University (president, 1945 – 1957), and Atlanta University, where he was dean of the School of Education, 1957 – 1966. Much of Bond’s research emphasized the social, economic, and geographic factors influencing academic achievement. pioneered many projects, including his critiques of intelligence and aptitude testing, his research on black doctorates, and his field work for the Julius Rosenwald Fund.

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Carter G. Woodson: The Father of Black History

Posted on01. Feb, 2010 by Leshell Hatley.

Imagine a world in which people like you have no written history, or that which has been written is incomplete or distorted. Before Dr. Carter Godwin Woodson (1875–1950) began his work, there was very little information, and much of that stereotypical misinformation, about the lives and history of Americans of African descent.

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Louis W. Sullivan, M.D.: Founding Dean and 1st President of Morehouse School of Medicine

Posted on29. Jan, 2010 by Leshell Hatley.

Louis W. Sullivan, M.D., is the founding Dean and first President of Morehouse School of Medicine (MSM). With the exception of his tenure as Secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) from 1989 to 1993, Dr. Sullivan was President of MSM for more than two decades. On July 1, 2002, he left the presidency, but continues to serve on the MSM Board of Trustees, to teach, and to assist in national fund-raising activities on behalf of the school.

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[HBCU Presidents] Dr. Robert M. Franklin, Jr. – Morehouse College

Posted on19. Jan, 2010 by Leshell Hatley.

Dr. Robert Michael Franklin ’75 is the tenth president of Morehouse College, the nation’s largest private, four-year liberal arts college for men.

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Dr. Arthur J. Bond: Electrical Engineer & Founding Advisor of NSBE

Posted on21. Dec, 2009 by Leshell Hatley.

Arthur J. Bond (born 1917) was the dean of the School of Engineering and Technology at Alabama A&M University in Alabama, and an activist in the cause of increasing black enrollment and retention in engineering and technology. He was a founding member of the National Society of Black Engineers and part of the team that fought for state funding of engineering at Alabama A&M University.

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