| LC control no. | n 86090468 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Cromwell, Adelaide M. |
| Variant(s) | Cromwell, Adelaide Cromwell, Adelaide McGuinn Cromwell Gulliver, Adelaide Gulliver, Adelaide Cromwell Hill, Adelaide C. Hill, Adelaide Cromwell |
| Associated country | United States |
| Birth date | 1919-11-27 |
| Death date | 2019-06-08 |
| Place of birth | Washington (D.C.) |
| Affiliation | University of Pennsylvania Harvard University Boston University |
| Profession or occupation | Educators Sociologists Social workers |
| Found in | Her An African Victorian feminist, 1986: t.p. (Adelaide M. Cromwell, Afro-American Studies Program, Boston U.) Dynamics of the African/Afro-American connection, 1987: CIP t.p. (Adelaide M. Cromwell) data sheet (b. 11/27/19) WW Amer. women, 1970/71 (Hill, Adelaide Cromwell; b. 11/27/19) 1983/84 (Gulliver, Adelaide Cromwell) LC database, 10/28/94 (hdg.: Cromwell, Adelaide M., Hill, Adelaide Cromwell) African American National Biography, accessed January 5, 2014, via Oxford African American Studies Center database: (Cromwell, Adelaide McGuinn; educator, sociologist, social worker. She was born 27 November 1919 in Washington, District of Columbia, United States; earned her AB in Sociology from Smith College (1940); her MA in Sociology from the University of Pennsylvania (1941); a social work certificate from Bryn Mawr (1941-1943); and her doctorate in sociology from Harvard (1943-1946). She was administrative director, and later director of the Boston University African studies program of the sociology department (1951, 1969). Her honors include appointments to the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Board of Foreign Scholarships, the Massachusetts Advisory Committee on Correction (1955-1968); and honorary degrees from the University of Southeastern Massachusetts (1971), George Washington University (1989), and Boston University (1995). She was awarded the Smith College Medal (1971) and the Smithsonian National Museum of American History Life Achievement Award (1999)) The journal of blacks in higher education (online), In memoriam: Adelaide Cromwell, 1919-2019, July 1, 2019, viewed July 16, 2021 (Adelaide Cromwell, professor of sociology emeritus and founder of the African American studies program at Boston University in 1969, passed away on June 8, 2019, age 99; first joined Boston University faculty in 1951; co-founded the university's African Studies Center two years later; she was the first African American faculty member at both Hunter College in New York City and Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts) Boston University graduate journal, volume 10, number 2, December 1961: page 51 (Adelaide C. Hill, research associate, African Studies Program, Boston University) |
| Associated language | eng |
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