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About Russell L. Adams
- Russell L.
- Adams (born August 13, 1930), an American author and professor.
- He is the Chairman of the Afro-American Studies Department at Howard University, Washington, D.C. Adams was born on August 13, 1930 in Baltimore, Maryland to James Russell and Lilly B.
- (Ponder) Adams.
- He received his elementary and high school education in Quitman, Georgia.
- He received his B.A.
- degree at Morehouse College, Atlanta in 1952, a M.A.
- degree at the University of Chicago in 1954, and later a Ph.D.
- in 1971. In 1965, Adams worked as an assistant professor and chair department of political science at the North Carolina Central University in Durham, North Carolina.
- In 1969, Adams became an associate professor at the University of the District of Columbia.
- In 1971, Adams was hired as chair of the Department of Afro-American Studies at Howard University. Throughout his work, Adams focused on the emergence of the Afro-American Studies as an academic field in addition to his long interest in cultural and curriculum diversity.
- Adams has published and edited several books, articles, and collections.
- He is the author of the biographical reference book Great Negroes Past and Present (1963), "leading American Negroes", a series of film strips for which he received the George Washington Honor Medal (1966), and The Pursuit of Power in Black America in the Nineteenth Century: A Study of the Emergence of Black Politically Oriented Voluntarism (1971). Adams is a member of the National Conference of Black Political scientists, National Association for the Study of Afro-American Life and History, and National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP).
- He has lectured at many universities throughout the United States, Caribbean, Europe, Israel, and South Africa. Adams is married to Eleanor McCurine and has two children, Sabrina and Russell Lowell Adams.
- He lives with his wife in Laurel, Maryland.
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