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The National Society of Black Physicists (NSBP), established in the United States in 1977, [1] is a non-profit professional organization with the goal to promote the professional well-being of African Diaspora physicists and physics students within the international scientific community and the world community at large.
It is a not-for-profit organization established in 1975. [1] The National Council for Black Studies was founded by Bertha Maxwell-Roddey, the founding director of the Black Studies/Afro-American and African Studies Program at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte.
The Afro-American Association (AAA) was an influential organization founded in 1962 that started as a study group teaching African and African American history, later hosting speakers, meetings, forums, and other activities. Historian Donna Murch has described it as “the most foundational institution in the Black Power movement.” [1]
Three African American women earn PhDs within nine days of each other: Georgiana R. Simpson, PhD in German Philology, University of Chicago, June 14, 1921; [19] Sadie Tanner Mossell, PhD in Economics, University of Pennsylvania, June 15, 1921; [20] Eva B. Dykes, PhD in English Language, Radcliffe College, June 22, 1921. [21]
A Black studies program was implemented by the UC Berkeley administration on January 13, 1969. In 1969, St. Clair Drake was named the first chair of the degree granting, Program in African and Afro-American Studies at Stanford University. [37] Many Black studies programs and departments and programs around the nation were created in subsequent ...
Gordon Morgan was born in 1931 in Mayflower, Arkansas to Roosevelt Morgan and Georgia Madlock Morgan. He went to college at the Arkansas Agricultural, Mechanical & Normal College (the largest and oldest historically black college in the state, which later (re)joined the University of Arkansas system as University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff), [3] where he graduated in sociology in 1953. [4]
Black faculty and activists say that an Indiana Senate bill could disproportionately penalize faculty of color and hinder open discussions of racism and racial history at Indiana’s public ...
In 1982, at age 33, Loury became the first black tenured professor of economics in the history of Harvard University. [3] He moved to Harvard's Kennedy School of Government after two years. [ 14 ] While at Kennedy school he would befriend William Bennett and Bill Kristol [ 3 ] (He later said in an interview that his economics appointment was a ...