| LC control no. | n 81135965 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| LC classification | PS3553.O47294 |
| Personal name heading | Cole, Johnnetta B. |
| Variant(s) | Cole, Johnnetta Cole, Johnnetta Betsch |
| Associated country | United States |
| Birth date | 1936-10-19 |
| Place of birth | Jacksonville (Fla.) |
| Affiliation | Northwestern University (Evanston, Ill.) Washington State University University of Massachusetts Amherst Hunter College Spelman College Rockefeller Foundation |
| Profession or occupation | Anthropologists College teachers College presidents Authors |
| Found in | Anthropology for the eighties, c1982 (a.e.) CIP t.p. (Johnnetta B. Cole) contrib. (prof. of anthrop. and Assoc. Provost for Undergraduate Education at the U. of Mass. at Amherst) Race and representation, c1987: t.p. (Johnnetta Cole) p. 3 (Johnnetta B. Cole) p. 7 (prof. of anthrop., dir., Latin Amer. & Carib. Studies Program, Hunter College) OCLC 9/7/01: (hdgs.: Cole, Johnnetta B.; Cole, Johnnetta Betsch; usages: Johnnetta Cole; Johnnetta B. Cole; Johnnetta Betsch Cole) African American National Biography, accessed December 12 2014, via Oxford African American Studies Center database: (Cole, Johnnetta Betsch; anthropologist, educator, college / university president; born 19 October 1936 in Jacksonville, Florida, United States; after receiving a BA in Sociology (1957), she began graduate work at Northwestern University in Chicago, Illinois and earned a MA (1959) and a PhD (1967) in Anthropology; after several years teaching anthropology and directing the black studies program at Washington State University, she was offered a tenured position at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst (1970); she took a teaching position at Hunter College in New York City (1983); became the the first African American female president of Spelman College (1987); served as a trustee of several colleges and universities and in leadership positions at the Rockefeller Foundation, the Martin Luther King Center for Nonviolent Social Change, the Points of Light Foundation, the Feminist Press, the United Negro College Fund, and the American Council on Education; wrote and edited numerous books, beginning with Anthropology for the eighties: Introductory readings (1982); her many trips to Cuba resulted in Race towards equality (1986); broke new ground in women's studies with All American women: lines that divide, ties that bind (1986)) |
| Associated language | eng |
| Invalid LCCN | n 85142396 n 87100674 n 2002114629 |
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