Tate, Merze, 1905-1996

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Birth 1905-02-06
Death 1996-06-27

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February 6, 1905 Born to Charles Edward and Myrtle (Katora) Tate in Blanchard, MI 1918 1920 Attended Blanchard School for two years 1923 Battle Creek High School honor graduate and winner of first place in the Hynman Oratorical contest 1927 Graduated from Western Normal College/Western Michigan University with a B.A. 1927 1932 Teacher Crispus Attucks High School 1930 Graduated from Columbia University, NY with a M.A. 1931 Awarded a diploma in International Studies from Geneva, Switzerland School. 1932 Awarded Alpha Kappa Alpha foreign scholar award 1934 1935 Phelps-Stokes grant recipient 1935 Awarded B.Litt. from Oxford University, England. First African American woman to enroll in Oxford where she studied European diplomatic history. 1935 1936 Dean of Women, teacher of history Barber-Scotia College, Concord, NC 1936 1941 Chairman Division of Social Science Bennett College, Greensboro, NC 1939 Awarded Rosenwald fellowship 1941 1942 Faculty member Morgan State University, Baltimore, MD 1941 Earned a Ph.D. from Radcliffe College/Harvard University, Cambridge, MA. First African American woman to earn a doctorate in Government and International relations 1942 Published The Disarmament Illusion: The Movement for a Limitation of Armaments to 1907 1942 1975 Faculty of Diplomatic History and International relations Howard University, Washington, DC 1948 Recipient Outstanding Achievement Award, National Urban League Published The United States and Armaments Represented United States at UNESCO at seminar held at Lake Success and Adelphi College June 6, 1949 Delivered Commencement address at Morgan State University, Baltimore, MD 1950 1951 Fulbright lecturer India served as a visiting professor at Rabindranath Tagore’s World University at Santiniketan, West Bengal. Lectured in eleven different Indian universities and college in Ceylon, and for the United States Information Services in Rangoon, Burma 1953 Summer Faculty Wayne State University, Indiana. Distinguished Professor Service Award, Radcliffe College Alumnae Association 1953 1958 Vice president Radcliffe of Washington, DC 1954 Listed among Who’s Who Among American Women Received Radcliffe College Alumnae Association Graduate Chapter Medal for distinguished achievement in the field of history. 1955 Visiting lecturer Western Michigan University March 8 9, 1957 Attended the Middle East Association spring meeting in Washington, DC April 4, 1957 Attended the League of Women’s Voters, One Day School 1958 1959 Sabbatical from Howard University conducted research in Hawaii, Fiji, Australia and New Zealand 1959 Research grantee American Council of Learned Society 1960 Washington Evening Star award 1961 Rockefeller Foundation research grant 1962 Recipient of summer grant-in-aid from the President’s committee, Howard University 1963 Granted honorary LL.D from Morgan State University, MD 1965 Published The United States and the Hawaiian Kingdom 1967 Member Screening community for United Kingdom Institute of International Education 1968 Published Hawaii: Reciprocity or Annexation 1969 Named most distinguished citizen of Isabella County, MI. 1970 Distinguished Alumni award from Western Michigan University 1971 Merze Tate graduate fellowship established at Radcliffe College October 22, 1972 Listed among “Two Thousand Women of Achievement,” London, England 1973 Established trust fund for Western Michigan University 1973 Published Diplomacy in the Pacific: A Collection of Twenty-Seven Articles on Diplomacy in the Pacific and Influence of the Sandwich (Hawaiian) Islands Missionaries 1975 Visiting Trustee Radcliffe Graduate Institute 1976 Graduate School Council Award for Outstanding Contribution to Howard University Graduate Education 1976 Served on the advisory council for the Black Women’s Oral History Project 1976 Travelled to South Africa as the guest of select South African corporations and universities while conducting research on railways 1977 Established Merze Tate scholarship Western Michigan University Endowed annual Merze Tate Diplomatic History Seminar Howard University Retired from Howard University 1978 Awarded honorary LL.D from Lincoln University, PA. Spirit of Detroit award by the Mayor of Detroit Award American Black Artist’s Pioneer Award, Detroit, MI 1980 Received the Radcliffe College Alumnae Association Graduate Chapter Distinguished professional achievement medal Prometheans Inc. honorary life membership award, only woman member 1981 Funded the Merze Tate Center for Research and Information Processing, Western Michigan University 1986 Awarded honorary Doctor of Humane letters from Howard University, Washington, DC 1989 Published Mineral Railways in Africa June 27, 1996 Died from cardiac arrest. Buried in Pine River Cemetery near Blanchard, MI

From the guide to the Merze Vernie Tate Papers, 1906-1995, (Moorland-Spingarn Research Center, Howard University)

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