Title Page | Collection Summary | Biographical/Organizational Note | Scope and Content | Arrangement
Biographical Note
Date | Event |
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1897, Jan. 7 | Born, Washington, D. C. |
1917 | B.A., Williams College, Williamstown, Mass. |
1917-1919 | United States Army, stationed in France |
1919-1924 | Resided in France |
1921 | Secretary, Second Pan-African Congress, Paris, France |
1921-1924 | Deputy secretary, Pan-African Association, Paris, France |
1923 | Secretary, Third Pan-African Congress, London, England, and Lisbon, Portugal |
1925-1930 | Professor, Virginia Union University, Richmond, Va. |
1927 | Married Ruth Robinson (deceased 1966) |
1929 | A.M., Williams College, Williamstown, Mass. |
1932 | A.M., Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass. |
1932-1933 | Assistant to editor, Journal of Negro History |
1933-1938 | Professor, Atlanta University, Atlanta, Ga. |
1936 | Ph.D., Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass. |
1938-1965 | Professor, Howard University, Washington, D. C. |
1940-1945 | Chair, Committee on the Participation of Negroes in National Defense |
1941 | Awarded National Order of Honor and Merit by Republic of Haiti Published The Diplomatic Relations of the United States with Haiti, 1776-1891. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press |
1941-1943 | Member, Advisory Committee of the Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs |
1942 | Published The Operation of the Mandate System in Africa, 1919-1927. Washington: Foundation Publishers |
1945 | Correspondent, Pittsburgh Courier, at United Nations founding conference, San Francisco, Calif. Published The Negro and the Post-War World: A Primer. Washington: Minorities Publishers; and The Senate and the Versailles Mandate System. Washington: Minorities Publishers |
1945-1948 | Foreign affairs editor, Pittsburgh Courier |
1947-1950 | Member, United States National Commission to Unesco |
1949 | Published The African Mandates inWorld Politics. Washington: Public Affairs Press |
1950-1951 | Director, Association for the Study of Negro Life and History Editor, Journal of Negro History and Negro History Bulletin |
1951-1952 | Represented NAACP at Sixth General Assembly of the United Nations, Paris, France Fulbright research fellow, Paris, France |
1953 | State Department-sponsored studies, West Africa |
1954 | Published The Negro in American Life and Thought: The Nadir, 1877-1901. New York: The Dial Press |
1957 | Published The Negro in the United States: A Brief History. Princeton: D. Van Nostrand |
1962 | Published Breve Storia dei Negri d'America. Rome: Opere Nuove |
1964 | Published History of the Negro in the United States. Calcutta: United States Information Service |
1965 | Honorary L.H.D., Williams College, Williamstown, Mass. Published The Betrayal of the Negro: From Rutherford B. Hayes to Woodrow Wilson. New York: Collier MacMillan |
1965-1969 | Historian, Howard University, Washington, D. C. |
1967 | Published with Irving S. Cohen The American Negro: Old World Background and New World Experience. Boston: Houghton-Mifflin Co.; and with Philip Sterling Four Took Freedom: the Lives of Harriet Tubman, Frederick Douglass, Robert Smalls, and Blanche Bruce. Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday |
1968 | Published Haiti and the Dominican Republic. London and New York: Oxford University Press for the Royal Institute of International Affairs |
1969 | Published Howard University: The First Hundred Years, 1867-1967. New York: New York University Press |
1970 | Published The Negro in the United States, Volume I: From Slavery to Second Class Citizenship, 1619-1945. New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold Co. |
1971 | Distinguished visiting professor of history, University of Utah, Provo, Utah Published with Michael R. Winston The Negro in the United States, Volume II: Ordeal of Democracy, 1945-1970. New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold Co |
1971-1974 | Professor, Howard University, Washington, D. C. |
1972 | L.L.D., Howard University, Washington, D. C. |
1982 | Published with Michael R. Winston Dictionary of American Negro Biography. New York: Norton |
1982, Nov. 5 | Died, Washington, D. C. |