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Maceo Crenshaw Dailey, Jr.
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Maceo Crenshaw Dailey, Jr. earned his Ph. D.
from
Howard
University
. He has taught at
Smith
College
,
Howard
University,
Brown
University,
Boston
College
,
Morgan
State
University,
Spelman
College
,
Colby College
,
New York
University, and
Morehouse
College
. He currently is
associate professor in the History Department and director of
African American Studies at the
University
of
Texas El Paso
. Professor Dailey has
published book chapters and essays in Digame, The
Dictionary of Negro American Biography, Dictionary of the
American Left, Theodore Roosevelt: Many Sided American, Leaders From the 1960s,
Black Lives, Walking
Integrity, Black Business and Economic Power;
and articles in scholarly journals Contributions in Black
Studies, The Review of Black Political Economy, Atlanta
History, Sage, and Harvard Business History Review.
He has served also as assistant editor for the
Journal of Negro History.
Dr. Dailey and Kristine Navarro co-edited the book, Wheresoever
My People Chance To Dwell: Oral Interviews With African American
Women of
El Paso. (Black Classic Press:
Baltimore
, 2000) Along with Ruthe
Winegarten, he edited Bernice Love Wiggins' Tuneful Tales
(Texas Tech Press:
Lubbock
, 2002).
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Within the last decade, Professor Dailey has
given over one hundred speeches, served on
thirty panels, and delivered twenty-five scholarly
papers. He is in the
process of completing a biography of Emmett Jay Scott.
He has a book contract from Greenwood Press to complete the
Booker T. Washington Encyclopedia.
Named to Who's Who in the East, Who's Who
Among American Teachers, Who's Who In
America, and Who’s Who In The World,
Dr. Dailey also has made many television and radio
appearances. He served on
the Board of Directors of The Apex Museum and Hammonds House in
Atlanta
,
Georgia
, and has worked as a consultant to the
Atlanta
History
Center
and Smithsonian
Museum. He is a member of the
American Historical Association and the Association For the
Study of Afro American Life and History.
In Texas, he served as two term chair for the
Board of Directors of Humanities Texas (state arm of
National Endowment For Humanities), a commissioner on the Texas
Emancipation Juneteenth Cultural and Historical Commission, a member of the
Advisory Committee for building of the
Bob
Bullock
Texas
Museum, and the Philosophical Society of Texas.
In El Paso, Dr. Dailey is Chairman of the Board of
Directors of the McCall Neighborhood Center, a board member of
the Child Crisis Center, El Paso Symphony, the Twelve Travelers
Memorial of the Southwest (1998-2002), Burnham Charter School, and
advisory committee member of the Texas Book Festival.
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Professor Dailey was awarded the 1996 Alex W.
Bealer Prize by the Atlanta Historical Society for the best
article during the last two years on a non-Atlanta topic
published in Atlanta History: A Journal of Georgia
and the South for the essay titled "Neither 'Uncle Tom' Nor 'Accommodationist':
Booker T. Washington, Emmett Jay Scott, and Constructionalism".
In April l999, he was honored as "Man of
Distinction" by the El Paso Alumnae Chapter of the Delta
Sigma Theta Sorority. He
was commissioned Senior History Advisor to The State of
Texas, 8 April, 2000. Within
the last five years, Dr. Dailey has received over seventy
plaques, citations of commendation, and certificates of
appreciation from various local, state, and national
organizations and community groups.
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