The Black Press In America - Henry Lewis Suggs, Ph.D.



Downloadable Books Harvey Gantt (Desegregation Clemson 1960-1963) P.B.Young - Booker Washington MILITANT 1904-1928 The Black Family In Slavery and Freedom The Black Press As Black Enterprise The Washingtonian Legacy	H. Lewis Suggs Ph.D., University of Virginia, 1977 Professor Henry Lewis Suggs is a distinguished and published scholar of American History. His academic concentrations are the American South, African American History, and African American Journalism. He earned his Ph.D. in American History from the University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Va. At Virginia, he was awarded the Martin Luther King, Jr., Woodrow Wilson Fellowship. His first teaching assignment was Western Carolina University, Cullowhee, N.C. He was WCU first African America faculty member. An academic scholarship was later named in his honor. He taught at Howard University, Washington, D.C. for a number of years, and was selected for the faculty of Clemson University, Clemson, S.C. in August 1983. He was the second African American faculty at Clemson to be promoted to the rank of full Professor in 1992. At Clemson, he taught American History, the American South, and African American History for a number of years. In Feb. 1994, he cranked up Clemson’s first African American Studies Program. Also, at Clemson, he was selected to hold the first one-year Dupont Endowed visiting Chair at Lynchburg College, Lynchburg, Va. Also, during his career at Clemson, he was selected for a twelve week summer fellowship at the University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kan. In 1997, he was selected as a W. E. B. Du Bois Scholar at Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass. Dr. Suggs retired as Professor Emeritus of American History from Clemson University in 2003. In Aug. 2003, Chancellor James H. Ammons, Chancellor, North Carolina Central University (NCCU), Durham, N.C., appointed him Scholar-in-residence at NCCU. His assigned duty was to write the history of NCCU. Dr. Suggs is the author of four published books and scores of published scholarly articles and book reviews in refereed journals such as The Harvard University Business Review, The Journal of Southern History, The American Historical Review, The Journal of Negro History, The Virginia Historical Review, and many others. His books include: a. The Black Press in the South, 1865-1979 (Westport , Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1983). $99.00 b. P. B. Young Newspaperman: Race, Politics, and Journalism in the New South , 1910-1962 (Charlottesville, Va.: Univ. of Virginia Press, 1988) $49.00 c. The Black Press in the Middle West, 1865-1985 ,Greenwood Press, 1997). $99.00 d. Cecil Newman and the Minneapolis Spokesman, 1934-1985 (1997) Published as chapter in Black Press in Middle West. Now separate book (c.2003) $59.00 e. The Noble Warrior: Chester Franklin and the Kansas City (Mo.) Call, 1919-1955 (completed late fall 2008 and under review by major university press) Forthcoming.	Research and Publications by H. Lewis Suggs, Ph.D. The Washingtonian Legacy:A History of Black Political Conservatism in America, 1915-1944 The Response Of The African American Press To The United States Occupation Of Hati, 1915-1934 P. B. Young Journalist and Race Leader Man or Myth? The Enigma of George Wallace Histiography of the Black Press, 1827 - 1945 Journalism, History, and Culture in Minnesota, 1865-1985 Additional Publications