Dr. Benjamin Arthur Quarles, a retired authority on Black history who wrote more than a dozen books, died of a heart attack. He was 92.
The former chairman of the Morgan State University history department lived at the Collington Episcopal Life Care Community in Mitchellville, MD.
After he earned a doctorate a. the University of Wisconsin, which resulted in his first book, Frederick Douglass, Quarles returned to Shaw University, where he began teaching in 1934. He also taught ...