Dr. Lorenzo Johnston Greene (1899-1988) taught history

History

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 at Lincoln University

Lincoln University (Missouri)

Lincoln University, a historically black college, is located in Jefferson City, Missouri. In 2007, according to U.S. News and World Report, Lincoln University was ranked #3 for economic diversity, #5 for campus ethnic diversity, and #9 for most international students among master's level...

 in Jefferson City, Missouri

Jefferson City, Missouri

Jefferson City is the capital of the U.S. state of Missouri and the county seat of Cole County. Located in Callaway and Cole counties, it is the principal city of the Jefferson City metropolitan area, which encompasses the entirety of both counties. As of the 2010 census, the population was 43,079...

 from 1933 - 1972. His book, Missouri’s Black Heritage, co-authored by Antonio Holland and Gary Kremer, was a pioneering work on the African American

African American

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 experience in Missouri

Missouri

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. He co-authored several works and his historical diaries and notes have been used in other historical texts, such as Selling Black History for Carter G. Woodson. He worked with Carter Woodson, who was known as the "Father of Black History".

Timeline

• 1899, Nov.16 Born, Ansonia, Connecticut
  Ansonia, Connecticut
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• 1924 B.A., Howard University, Washington, D.C.
• 1926 M.A. in history, Columbia University
  Columbia University
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  , New York, N.Y.
• 1928 - 1933 Field representative and research assistant to Carter G. Woodson, director, Association for the Study of Negro Life and History, Washington, D.C.
• 1930 Published with Carter G. Woodson The Negro Wage Earner Washington, D.C.: Associated Publishers. 388 pp.)
• 1931 Published with Myra C. Callis The Employment of Negroes in the District of Columbia (Washington, D.C.: Associated Publishers. 89 pp.)
• 1933 - 1972 Instructor and professor of history, Lincoln University, Jefferson City, Mo.
• 1942 Ph.D.
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   in history, Columbia University, New York, N.Y. Published The Negro in Colonial New England, 1620-1776 (New York: Columbia University Press. 404 pp.) Married Thomasina Tally
• 1955 Chairman, program committee, Association for the Study of Negro Life and History annual meeting, Los Angeles, Calif.
• 1947 - 1956 Editor, Midwest Journal, Lincoln University, Jefferson City, Mo.
• 1964 Chairman, program committee, Association for the Study of Negro Life and History annual meeting, Detroit, Mich.
• 1959 - 1961 Chairman, SubCommittee on Education, Missouri Advisory Committee to the United States Commission on Civil Rights
• 1965 - 1966 President, Association for the Study of Negro Life and History
• 1971 Honorary LH.D., University of Missouri, Columbia, Mo.
• 1971 - 1972 Director, Institute for Drop-Out Prevention and Teacher Orientation, Jefferson City, Mo.
• 1972 - 1974 Director, Institute to Facilitate Desegregation in Kansas City Public Schools, Kansas City, Mo.
• 1980 Published with Antonio F. Holland and Gary Kremer Missouri's Black Heritage (St. Louis: Forum Press. 195 pp.)
• 1988, Jan. 24 Died, Jefferson City, Missouri
  Jefferson City, Missouri
  Jefferson City is the capital of the U.S. state of Missouri and the county seat of Cole County. Located in Callaway and Cole counties, it is the principal city of the Jefferson City metropolitan area, which encompasses the entirety of both counties. As of the 2010 census, the population was 43,079...
  
  
• 1988 Posthumous publication of Working with Carter G. Woodson, the Father of Black History, a Diary, 1928-30 (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press. 487 pp.)

External links

• Missouri's African American History
• Carter Woodson, Father of Black History
• Oh Freedom, After Awhile. A sharecropper's history. Dr. Greene influenced university students to help the sharecroppers of 1939.
• African-American History and Culture
• Lorenzo Johnston Greene: A Registry of His Papers