| LC control no. | nr 96000936 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Reason, Charles Lewis, 1818-1893 |
| Associated country | United States |
| Birth date | 18180721 |
| Death date | 18930816 |
| Place of birth | New York (N.Y.) |
| Place of death | New York (N.Y.) |
| Field of activity | Education Poetry |
| Affiliation | Institute for Colored Youth at Cheyney McGrawville College (McGraw, N.Y.) Society for the Promotion of Education Among Colored Children (New York, N.Y.) New York Central College New York Political Improvement Association Phoenix Society (New York, N.Y.) |
| Profession or occupation | Civil rights workers College teachers |
| Found in | The poetry of Charles Lewis Reason, 1995: Database of African-American poetry, 1760-1900 : bibliography (Charles Lewis Reason; b. 1818; d. 1893) Afro-American poetry and drama, 1760-1975, 1979: p. 74 (Charles Lewis Reason; b. 1818; d. 1893) Sherman, J. Invisible poets, 1974: p. 27 (Charles Lewis Reason; b. 1818; d. 1893; educator, reformer, poet and essayist) Wikipedia, Oct. 4, 2013 (Charles Lewis Reason (July 21, 1818 - Aug. 16, 1893, New York City) was a mathematician, linguist, and educator, politial activist, reformer; he became the first African-American university professor at a predominately white college in the US, teaching at New York Central College, McGrawville) <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Reason> African American National Biography, accessed March 21, 2015, via Oxford African American Studies Center database: (Reason, Charles Lewis; civil rights activist, educator; born 21 July 1818 in New York, New York, United States; studied at McGrawville College in McGraw, New York; co-founded the Society for the Promotion of Education among Colored Children, New York City (1847); was professor of Greek, Latin, and French at the New York Central College, Cortland County (1849), principal of the Institute for Colored Youth, Philadelphia (1852-1855), teacher and administrator of New York City schools (1855-1892); was elected chairman of the Committee on Grammar School Work of the Teacher's Association (1887); was founder and executive secretary of the New York Political Improvement Association; lectured on behalf of the Fugitive Aid-Society; was vice president of the New York State Labor Union and leader of New York City's Phoenix Society (1840s); died 16 August 1893 in New York) |
| Associated language | eng |
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