{"id":1460,"date":"2017-10-01T15:51:05","date_gmt":"2017-10-01T20:51:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/asc\/?p=1460"},"modified":"2020-06-12T09:23:50","modified_gmt":"2020-06-12T14:23:50","slug":"black-faculty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/asc\/2017\/10\/01\/black-faculty\/","title":{"rendered":"Research files: First Black faculty member"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"John<\/a>

John W. Martin, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Sociology, first African American faculty member.<\/p><\/div>\n

During a recent visit by some wonderfully curious Gateway students, someone asked about the first African-American professor. Our first Black professor arrived in 1961 when John W. Martin<\/a> joined the Sociology faculty. This is documented on p. 176 of the Myers and Teichman book Illinois Wesleyan University: Continuity and Change, 1850-2000<\/em><\/a>. Sadly, we don’t know much else about his life. Anyone who has records about him to donate is welcome to contact the archives (archives {@} iwu.edu).<\/p>\n

In future posts I will share more of the questions posed by these students.<\/p>\n

\"Frank<\/a>

Frank Starkey, Ph.D., Professor<\/p><\/div>\n

The next African-American faculty member (as researched by the archivist) was Frank Starkey<\/a>, Professor of Chemistry, who taught from 1971-1980 and received the 1978 IWU Century Club Teacher of the Year Award<\/a>. In comments he shared during the Black Fine Arts Festival, reported on in The Argus<\/em> (p. 1) March 22, 1977<\/a>, Starkey remarks on the need for the Black Student Union to improve on their efforts (re BFAF’s purpose) and also includes a critique of IWU’s poor recruiting efforts of Black students, faculty and administrators.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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