Berry, Mary Frances

LC control no.	n 50007567
Descriptive conventions	rda
Personal name heading	Berry, Mary Frances *Browse this term in* LC Authorities or the LC Catalog
Variant(s)	Berry, Mary S.
Associated country	United States
Birth date	1938-02-17
Place of birth	Nashville (Tenn.)
Field of activity	African Americans--Civil rights--History
Affiliation	Howard University University of Pennsylvania University of Colorado United States Commission on Civil Rights
Profession or occupation	College teachers Scholars Public officers Civil rights workers University and college faculty members
Found in	Black resistance, white law, 1971. 1979 NAACP convention coverage, c1979: caption (Mary S. Berry, Asst. Secretary of Education, H.E.W.) The Northeastern voice webpage, May 5, 2000: (Mary Frances Berry, a former U.S. assistant secretary for education in the Department of Health, Education and Welfare; webpage includes photograph which matches image on video frame) Info. converted from 678, 2012-10-02 (b. 1938) Wikipedia, Jan. 24, 2014 (Mary Frances Berry (b. Feb. 17, 1938, Nashville, TN) is the Geraldine R. Segal Professor of American Social Thought and Professor of History at the University of Pennsylvania; former chairwoman of the United States Commission on Civil Rights; former board chair of Pacifica Radio; she was also president of the Organization of American Historians; teaches American legal history at University of Pennsylvania) African American National Biography, accessed via The Oxford African American Studies Center online database, July 27, 2014: (Berry, Mary Frances; legal scholar, civil rights activist, political activist; born 17 February 1938 in Nashville, Tennessee, United States; bachelor of arts degree (1961) and master of arts degree (1962), Howard University; doctorate in history, University of Michigan (1966); JD degree, University of Michigan Law School (1970); director of the Afroamerican Studies program and chancellor at the University of Colorado; assistant secretary of education in the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare (1977-1980); professor in the Department of History and Law at Howard University (1980-1987); appointed Geraldine R. Segal Professor of American Social Thought at the University of Pennsylvania (1987); in 1980 the Carter administration appointed her to the United States Commission on Civil Rights; in 1993 President Clinton appointed Berry as chairperson of the commission and in January of 1999 reappointed her)
Associated language	eng