King, Wilma
KING, Wilma
KING, Wilma. American, b. 1942. Genres: History. Career: Hampton University, Hampton, VA, associate professor, 1973-85; Indiana University of Pennsylvania, Indiana, associate professor, 1985-91; Michigan State University, East Lansing, associate professor of history, 1991-99; University of Missouri, Columbia, Strickland Professor of African American History, 1999-. National Endowment for the Humanities, principal investigator and co-director for Summer Seminars for College Teachers, Virginia, 1984; U.S. Department of Interior, Washington, DC, principal investigator and director of a feasibility study of the Frederick Douglass Home at Cedar Hill, 1985; public speaker on American and African-American history at universities and organizations, 1986-; member of Black History Advisory Board, Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission, 1990-91. Publications: (ed.) A Northern Woman in the Plantation South: Letters of Tryphena Blanche Holder Fox, 1856-1876, 1993; Stolen Childhood: Children and Youth in Bondage in the Nineteenth-Century, 1995; Toward the Promised Land, 1995; Children of the Emancipation (children's), 2000. Contributor to periodicals. Address: Department of History, 101 Read Hall, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO 65211, U.S.A.