Ruby Ora Williams (1926–2009) was an American literary scholar and bibliographer, known for her bibliographies of black women's writing.[1]

Life

Ora Williams was the daughter of Ida Bolles (Roach) Williams.[2] She became professor at California State University, Long Beach in 1968.[3][4] A participant in the university's pioneering equal opportunities program,[5] she and Clyde Taylor designed and shaped the black studies program at CSU in the early 1970s.[6] She retired in 1988.[3]

Works

  • 'A Bibliography of Works Written by American Black Women', College Language Association Journal, 1972. Published in book form as American Black women in the arts and social sciences : a bibliographic survey, Metuchen, N.J. : Scarecrow Press, 1973.
  • An In-Depth Portrait of Alice Dunbar-Nelson, Ph.D. dissertation, University of California at Irvine, 1974
  • (ed.) Works of Eva Jessye
  • An In-Depth Portrait of Alice Dunbar-Nelson, 1975
  • 'Works by and About Alice Ruth (Moore) Dunbar-Nelson: A Bibliography', College Language Association Journal 19 (1976)
  • (ed.) American Black Women in the Arts and Social Sciences: A Bibliographic Survey, 1978
  • (ed.) An Alice Dunbar-Nelson Reader. Washington, DC: University Press of America, 1979.
  • Just like a meteor: a bio-bibliography of the life and works of Charles William Williams, a New Jersey African-American, Glassboro, N.J.: Meteor Books, 1994

References

  1. ↑ Toni Constantino (1979). Women of Color Forum: A Collection of Readings. Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction. p. 180.
  2. ↑ Liberator, Vol. 10, p.60.
  3. 1 2 CSU-LB, Emeriti Faculty, 2013-14 University Catalog
  4. ↑ 'Dr Ruby Ora Williams', Asbury Park Press, May 6, 2009. Republished online at legacy.com.
  5. ↑ 50th Anniversary of CSULB EOP Program, Congressional Record, Vol 162, No 162 (Monday, November 14, 2016).
  6. ↑ Doris Nelson, The real birth of black studies, 49er, Vol. LIV, No. 75.
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