Donald Spivey
Donald Spivey (born 18 July 1948) is an American historian and Distinguished Professor at University of Miami.[1][2]
Early life and career[edit]
Spivey was born in Chicago, US and has attended the Richard T. Crane High School. He was the president of his class, which was the last winter graduating class at the school in 1967. He graduated as class salutatorian and later enrolled at the University of Illinois of the Big Ten Conference and journeyed to Urbana-Champaign. In 1960s, he devoted himself to academics and a growing activism and was a member of the Black Students Association, Omega Psi Phi Fraternity, and the fight to integrate the faculty and staff at the university, the anti-war movement, and the ongoing struggle for civil rights. Spivey holds a B.A. "with distinction in history" (1971) and a M.A. in history (1972) both from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
In 1976, he finished his PhD in history from the University of California where he studied under the tutelage of the renowned labor historian David Brody. Donald Spivey has taught at the University of California at Davis, Wright State University, the University of Michigan, the University of Connecticut, where he was founding director of the Institute for African-American Studies.
In 1993, he joined University of Miami serving as chair of the department for five years. He is a frequent lecturer and commentator on TV, radio and in the print medium. See, for example, his lecture on “Satchel Paige and Negro Leagues Baseball in the Civil Rights Movement” broadcast on C-SPAN and his presentation on “The Historical Richness of Black Baseball in the New Negro Movement, 1919-1941,” at the National Endowment for the Humanities, Washington University Humanities Center Summer Institute.[3][4][5][6]
Bibliography[edit]
- Racism, Activism, and Integrity in College Football: The Bates Must Play Movement (2021)
- Ancestry (2018)
- Black Pearls of Wisdom: Voicing the African-American Journey for Freedom, Empowerment, and the Future (2014)
- Step Forward the Hero: The Story of Milton L. Olive, III, First African American Awarded the Medal of Honor in the Vietnam War (2014)
- "If You Were Only White": The Life of Leroy “Satchel” Paige (2012)
- Fire From The Soul: A History of the African-American Struggle (2003)
- The Politics of Miseducation: The Booker Washington Institute of Liberia, 1929-1984 (1986)
- Sport in America: New Historical Perspectives (1985)
- Union and the Black Musician: The Narrative of William Everett Samuels and Chicago Local 208 (1984)
- Schooling For The New Slavery: Black Industrial Education, 1868-1915 (1978; paperback edition, 2007)[7][8][9]
Honors and awards[edit]
- Faculty Senate Outstanding Teaching Award
- Provost's Award for Scholarly Activity
- Robert Peterson Recognition Award
- Ronald McDonald House Award[10][11][12][13]
References[edit]
- ^ "Donald Spivey". people.miami.edu. Retrieved 2021-07-12.
- ^ "For this crusader, the fight for equality is a lifelong endeavor". news.miami.edu. Retrieved 2021-07-12.
- ^ "Donald Spivey | C-SPAN.org". www.c-span.org. Retrieved 2021-07-12.
- ^ Humanities, Center for the (2018-08-24). "NNR Lectures". Center for the Humanities. Retrieved 2021-07-12.
- ^ Muñoz, Jacob. "Fifty Years Ago, Satchel Paige Brought the Negro Leagues to Baseball's Hall of Fame". Smithsonian Magazine. Retrieved 2021-07-12.
- ^ "Apple TV+ to develop series about Negro Baseball League". AppleInsider. Retrieved 2021-07-12.
- ^ "CAP - Author Donald Spivey". cap-press.com. Retrieved 2021-07-12.
- ^ "Donald Spivey". www.goodreads.com. Retrieved 2021-07-12.
- ^ "Donald Spivey Books - Biography and List of Works - Author of 'If You Were Only White'". www.biblio.com. Retrieved 2021-07-12.
- ^ Trexler, MacKenzie (2019-10-03). "Faculty Senate award nominations due Oct. 23". The Miami Hurricane. Retrieved 2021-07-12.
- ^ "Donald Spivey". people.miami.edu. Retrieved 2021-07-12.
- ^ "Longtime Faculty Members Honored at Faculty Senate Awards Ceremony - InventUM | University of Miami Miller School of Medicine". physician-news.umiamihealth.org. Retrieved 2021-07-12.
- ^ "Pivotal faculty making a positive impact". news.miami.edu. Retrieved 2021-07-12.