Typescript memoir of historian W. Sherman Savage, with some small pencil corrections. The memoir contains the following chapters: Chapter I. Growing up on the Eastern shore of Virginia; Chapter II. The Effort to Secure an Education; Chapter III. Beginning of my teaching career; Chapter IV. The Early Years at Lincoln University; Chapter V. The Reorganization of the College after 1921; Chapter VI. Development of Lincoln after 1931; Chapter VII. Developing the Department of History; Chapter VIII. Research; Chapter IX. California State College and Various Summer Schools; Chapter X. The Work of Research and Writing. Title transcribed from manuscript title page; date approximated by cataloger. African-American history professor W. Sherman Savage (1890-1980) was born in Wattsville, Virginia, and received a bachelor's degree from Howard University in 1917. He held various teaching positions in Mississippi, North Carolina and Oklahoma, before becoming professor of history at Lincoln University of Missouri (Jefferson City, Missouri) in 1921. He also became the first black graduate of the University of Oregon (receiving an M.A. in 1925) and the first black to receive a doctorate from Ohio State University in 1934. Dr. Savage remained at Lincoln University until his retirement in 1960 as chair of the History Department. Thereafter, he taught in the History and Political Science Department at Jarvis Christian College in Hawkins, Texas, until 1966. Following his departure from Jarvis, he and his wife Roena moved to Los Angeles, California where he continued to teach as a visiting professor at California State College, Los Angeles, until 1970. He pursued his research and his writing in the years after his final retirement up until his death in 1980. As an historian, Savage wrote initially about abolitionism (including a published version of his doctoral dissertation, "The Controversy Over the Distribution of Abolition Literature, 1830-1860") but soon became interested in exploring the circumstances of African Americans in the trans-Mississippi West.
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