Draft:Joe Louis Caldwell

Not to be confused with basketball player Joe Caldwell

Joe Louis Caldwell (? - March 2010) was a history professor and author. He was a professor at University of New Orleans and the first African American to chair its history department.

He also worked at Tulane University, Southern University, Texas Southern University and Loyola University. He was born in Lincoln Parish in north Louisiana and named for boxer Joe Louis. He received a B.A. from Grambling College, a master's degree from Atlanta University, and a doctorate from Tulane University.

He was married to Henri Belle Caldwell and had a son and daughter.

Writings

 * A social, economic, and political study of blacks in the Louisiana Delta, 1865-1880 by Joe Caldwell (1989)
 * A study of the development of William Edward Burghardt Du Bois' pan-African ideas (1969)