Nick Aaron Ford papers, 1935-1984.

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Nick Aaron Ford papers, 1935-1984.

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Papers documenting Ford's career as a scholar, educator, and writer; his long association with Morgan State College, 1945-1973; his service as Head of the Department of English, 1947-1972; his recognition as the Alain Locke Distinguished Professor of Black Studies, 1973; and papers re his post-retirement activities with the Center for Minority Studies, Union Graduate School, 1974-ca. 1979, a project of the Union for Experimenting Colleges and Universities (UECU). Contains writings, 1936-1983, including page proofs for his 1971 textbook, Black Insights: Significant Literature by Black Americans - 1760 to the Present; correspondence, chiefly between 1970 -1982 (ca. 180 letters), with other scholars, including Margaret Walker Alexander (who wrote under the name Margaret Walker), Marianna W. Davis, Henry Ponder, Benjamin Quarles, and Allen Tate. Six photographs of the Ford taken at various stages of life include a view taken while a senior at the high school at Benedict College (Columbia, S.C.), and as an adult with his mother, wife and son, and as a professor with his students. Essays, opinion, literary criticism, reviews, short fiction, and other writings by Ford on literature and the African American experience published in academic journals and elsewhere include: Ambivalence of Ralph Ellison (part of special edition devoted to Ellison, in Black World ; Dec. 1970); Attitudes and actions of english departments toward Black Studies (College Language Association Journal ; Mar. 1973); Black Studies programs (part of special issue of Current History (Nov. 1974), essays re "Changing Black America"); Confessions of a black critic (Black World ; June 1971); Cultural integration through literature (Teachers College Record ; Jan. 1965); The English Department and the challenge of racism (Bulletin of the Association of Departments of English ; Jan. 1969); and The fire next time? A critical survey of belles letters by and about negroes published in 1962 (Phylon - the Atlanta University Review of Race & Culture ; 1962 ; Vol. XXV : no. 2). Other publications include Huckleberry Finn : a threat and a challenge (Teachers College Record ; Vol. LX : no. 5); Improving reading and writing skills of disadvantaged college freshmen (College Composition and Communication ; May 1967); Literature as an aid to social development (Teachers College Record ; Apr. 1957); My faith in America (Christian Century ; 3 July 1957); The negro junior college (Journal of Negro Education ; Oct. 1936); Richard Wright: a profile (Chicago Jewish Forum ; Fall 1962); A teacher looks at integration (Phylon; 1954 ; vol. XV : no. 3); Walt Whitman's conception of democracy (Phylon ; 1950 ; Vol. XI : no. 3); and With malice toward none: a narrow escape (Negro Story : Short Stories by or about Negroes for all Americans ; July-Aug. 1944).

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University of South Carolina, System Library Service, University Libraries

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Morgan State College. Dept. of English.

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Davis, Marianna W.

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Walker, Margaret, 1915-1998

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Teacher, writer. From the description of Reminiscences of Margaret Abigail Walker Alexander : oral history, 1977. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 122526993 ...

Tate, Allen, 1899-1979

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Quarles, Benjamin

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Ponder, Henry, 1928-

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Henry Ponder was born on March 28, 1928 in Wewoka, Oklahoma. He was the eleventh of fourteen children born to Frank and Lillie Mae Ponder. Ponder excelled in academics and participated in his high school student council as the class president. After hearing a speech by Mary McCloud Bethune, Ponder was inspired to become a university president. He graduated from Douglas High School in 1946 and attended Langston University, where he pledged the Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity and received his B.S. degr...

Ford, Nick Aaron.

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African American educator and writer born in Ridgeway (Fairfield County, S.C.); served as head of the Dept. of English, 1947-1972, and as professor of Black Studies, 1973, at Morgan State College (Baltimore, Maryland); born 1904; died 1982; son of Nick A. and Carrie Ford; married, 1927, to Janie Etheridge, a union that produced a son, Leonard Aaron; married, 1968, to Ola Scroggins Tatum; educated at Benedict College, AB, 1926; and University of Iowa, MA, 1934, PhD, 1945; early in his career he s...