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Alton Hornsby Publishes
Major Work in African- American Studies
and Coauthors a Prize-winning Book
Dr. Alton Hornsby Jr., Fuller E. Callaway Professor of History at Morehouse College, former ASBS President and DuBois Award Recipient, has just published a major, state_of_the_art work in African American Studies. A Companion to African American Studies (Edited with an Introduction) was published in the United Kingdom in December 2004 and in the United States in January 2005 by Blackwell Publishing Company.
The book contains 34 essays by leading scholars of African American Studies, including ASBS members Dr. Delores P. Aldridge, Dr. Marcellus Barksdale, and Dr. Augustine Konneh. Topics range from Slavery to Gay and Lesbians to Hip-Hop.
Also, in February 2005, Dr. Hornsby co-authored with Dr. Alexa Henderson (former ASBS member), a book entitled The Atlanta Urban League, 1920_2000. The book has been designated the Adele Mellen Award for "distinguished contribution to scholarship."
In the last two years, Hornsby has published four other books, including, A Short History of Black Atlanta, 1847_1990, Death and Remembrance in the African American South: The Transition of Mayor Maynard Holbrook Jackson Jr.; Southerners Too: Essays on the Black South, 1733_1990; and Essays in African American Historiography and Methodology (Edited with an Introduction).
Furthermore, Hornsby wrote the Introduction for the current edition of Who’s Who Among African Americans and was presented a distinguished scholar award by the Atlanta Urban League Young Professionals in February 2005.