Portrait of Dr. Lawrence D. Reddick, professor of history. Courtesy of Special Collections Research Center, Temple University Libraries, Philadelphia, PA. African American, Ethnography, History Lawrence Reddick (1910-1995) Dr. Lawrence Dunbar Reddick was an internationally acclaimed historian, intellectual, and educator. His transformative documentation of the lives, struggles, and cultures of Black people spans much of the …
Image from Southern University and A&M College, https://www.subr.edu/page/2510 African American, Ethnography, History John Brother Cade (1894-1970) John Brother Cade led one of the earliest oral history collections of ex-slave narratives in the United States. Born near Elberton, Georgia, in 1894, he graduated from Knox Institute and Industrial School in Athens, Georgia in 1915. After he …
Photo from nativestudy.com Native American (Oklahoma Cherokee), History, Genealogy Emmet McDonald Starr (1870-1930) Dr. Emmet Starr was an acclaimed historian who documented Oklahoma Cherokee lineages in order to preserve tribal citizenship rights and cultural traditions through his numerous publications. Emmet McDonald Starr was born in 1870 in the Going Snake District in the Cherokee Nation …