- Horace Huntley
Horace Huntley is a
professor at theUniversity of Alabama, Birmingham (UAB) in the School of Social and Behavioral Sciences. Dr. Huntley has worked extensively as ahistorian in the field ofCivil Rights . He is the Director of the Oral History Project of theBirmingham Civil Rights Institute . cite web|accessdate=2008-04-08
url=http://www.bcri.org/tracks/research_resources/oral_history_project.htm
title=Oral History Project
publisher=Birmingham Civil Rights Institute]Research and authorship
Huntley worked at the
Birmingham Civil Rights Institute researching and interpreting oral histories for a book, "Black Workers' Struggle for Equality in Birmingham ", which he authored withYale University historian David Montgomery. The book, which was published in 2004 cataloged the relationships betweenAfrican-American workers and labor unions in the post-Civil RightsAmerican South . He also authored "A Master Option Trader's Journey From Pipe Shop To Wall Street - The Life and Times of Terry Harris" in 2005 which tells the story of a young black man, born inBessemer, Alabama who teaches himself the art ofoption trading onWall Street and then develops a system to teach other poor people the same. In 2006, he co-authored "Nerve Juice And The Ivory Tower - Confrontation in Minnesota - The True Story Of The Morrill Hall Takeover" which tells the story of a black student's quest at the University of Minnesota for a Black Studies Department. The co-authors areMarie Braddock Williams andRose Freeman Massey .Personal life and education
Huntley is a native of
Birmingham, Alabama and graduate of Wenonah High School. He was one of the first recipients of the Baccalaureate Degree in African American Studies from theUniversity of Minnesota . He earned a Masters Degree fromSyracuse University and a doctorate from theUniversity of Pittsburgh . Huntley developed the minor in African American Studies at UAB and for more than twenty-five years has offered a series of courses on the experiences of Africans of the diaspora. In addition, Huntley has served as an Alabama Humanities Foundation Scholar, on the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute Task Force, as a founding member of the Institute (BCRI). He is the Director of the Oral History Project for BCRI. He served on the Birmingham Historical Commission, the Birmingham Historical Society and as an evaluator of the Fellowship Office of the National Research Council of theNational Science Foundation .References
External links
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url=http://www.bcri.org/index.html
title=Birmingham Civil Rights Institute website
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