Biography:

Historian; college professor. Born– Mar. 13, 1940, in Jasper, Ala. Parents– Robert Glenn and Ester Lee (Brakefield) Sherer. Married– Amelia Ann Brookshire, June 2, 1968. Children– Two. Education– attended Alabama Polytechnic Institute and Yale University; University of North Carolina, A.B., 1962; Ph.D., 1970; Brown University, M.A., 1967.  Taught at Stetson University (Florida), 1969-71; Alcorn State (Louisiana), 1971-74; Wiley  State College (Texas), 1974-  .   Member of Organization of American Historians, the American Studies Association, the Association for The Study of Afro-American Life and History, the Southern Historical Association, and the Texas Historical Association. Awarded Rockefeller Fellowship at Yale, 1962-63.

Source:

Contemporary Authors online

Publication(s):

Subordination or Liberation?; The Development and Conflicting Theories of Black Education in Nineteenth Century Alabama. Tuscaloosa, Ala.; University of Alabama Press, 1977.