Wiggins, Forrest Oran, 1907-

Forrest Wiggins was born in Vincennes, Indiana. He graduated from Butler University (B.A., 1928), and from the University of Wisconsin (Masters, 1931; Ph. D., 1938), with postgraduate work in from the Alliance FranƯaise in Paris, 1928-29. After teaching at several colleges, he was hired by the University of Minnesota in 1946 in the Philosophy Dept., and was the first African-American to have a regular full time instructorship at a state university. In 1951, Wiggins was denied tenure by the dean of the School of Science, Literature and the Arts, a move that was protested by the chair of the Philosophy Dept. and other faculty members, by student petitions and organizations, by the NAACP, the Minnesota chapter of the AAUP, and by the ACLU Committee on Academic Freedom.

From the description of Papers, 1946-1966. (University of Minnesota, Minneapolis). WorldCat record id: 63286124

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