| LC control no. | n 90688849 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Williams, Chancellor, 1893-1992 |
| Birth date | 1893-12-22 |
| Death date | 1992-12-07 |
| Found in | nuc90-48290: His The destruction of Black civilization, c1987 (hdg. on LU rept.: Williams, Chancellor; usage: Chancellor Williams) LC data base, 9-4-90 (hdg.: Williams, Chancellor) Library of Congress Manuscript Division for the Chancellor Williams papers (Chancellor Williams; Chancellor James Williams; born on Dec. 22, 1893, in Bennettsville, S.C.; died on Dec. 7, 1992, in Washington, D.C.; African-American sociologist, historian and writer; noted for his work on African civilizations prior to encounters with Europeans; his major work is The Destruction of Black Civilization, published in 1974; 1935 administrative principal for the Cheltenham School for Boys in Maryland, 1935-1939; became a teacher in the Washington, D.C. public schools in 1939; entered the civil service system in the Federal government in 1941, serving as section chief of the Census Bureau, a statistician for War Relocation Board, and an economist in Office of Price Administration; social science instructor at Howard University, 1946-52; transferred to the Howard University History Department in 1952; retired from Howard University in 1966) |
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