Draft:Alton Hornsby Jr.

Allen Parker Hornsby Jr. should link here

(1940-2017) a history professor, author and editor. An African American he studied at Morehouse College and returned to it as a history professor. He edited the Journal of Negro History. He served as president of the Association of Social and Behavioral Scientists, an association of social science educators at colleges for African Americans, from 1984 to 1985. He retired from Morehouse College in 2010 after heading its history department.

www.jpanafrican.org/docs/vol12no1/12.1-1-Memoriam%20(1).pdf

https://www.blackpast.org/african-american-history/alton-hornsby-jr-1940-2017/

https://liberalarts.utexas.edu/history/news/professor-emeritus-alton-hornsby-jr-first-african-american-graduate-of-ut-history-s-ph-d-program-1939-2017

Interview.

He was photographed at Morehouse College for a 1984 newspaper article.

The Auburn Avenue Research Library on African-American Culture and History Repository in Atoanta has a collection of his papers.

Writings

 * Black Power in Dixie: A Political History of African Americans in Atlanta
 * Milestones In 20th-century African-american History
 * In the Cage. Eyewitness Accounts of the Freed Negro in Southern Society, 1877-1929, editor and wrote introduction
 * African Americans in the Post-Emancipation South; The Outsiders' View (2010)
 * Chronology of African American History (2000)
 * Black America: A State-by-State Historical Encyclopedia two volumes (2011)
 * The Black Almanac
 * A Companion to African American History
 * A Short History of Black Atlanta, 1847-1993
 * 'Zell We Hardly Knew Ye'; Zell Miller and the Politics of Region, Gender, Class, and Race 2000-2005
 * Southerners, Too?: Essays on the Black South, 1733-1990