{"id":781,"date":"2014-08-05T11:10:33","date_gmt":"2014-08-05T18:10:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=781"},"modified":"2016-12-12T15:29:00","modified_gmt":"2016-12-12T22:29:00","slug":"billingsley-andrew-1926","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=781","title":{"rendered":"BILLINGSLEY, ANDREW, 1926-"},"content":{"rendered":"

Biography:<\/strong><\/p>\n

University administrator; sociologist; professor; writer. Born– March 20, 1926, Marion, Al.\u00a0 Parents–Silas and Lucy Billingsley.\u00a0 Married– Amy Loretta Tate.\u00a0 Children– two. \u00a0Education– Grinnell College, A.B., 1951; Boston University, M.S., 1956; University of Michigan, M.A., 1960; Brandeis University, Ph.D., 1964.\u00a0 U.S. Army, WWII, 1944-46. \u00a0American Friends Service Committee, director of Youth Service Projects, Chicago, 1951-54; psychiatric social worker, Mendota State Hospital, Madison, WI, 1956-58; Director of Friends International Student Center, Ann Arbor, Michigan, 1959-60; social worker and research assistant, Massachusetts Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Children, 1960-63; taught at University of California, Berkeley, 1964-1970; assistant chancellor for academic affairs, Berkeley, 1968-70.\u00a0 Professor and Vice president for academic affairs, Howard University, 1970-74; President, Morgan State University, Baltimore, 1975-1984.\u00a0 Professor, University of Maryland, College Park, 1985-87; Professor, University of South Carolina College of Arts and Sciences, Columbia, 1988-1996.\u00a0 Contributed scholarly articles to many professional journals and anthologies. Served on the board of The Black Scholar and the Journal of Afro-American Studies. Member American Sociological Association, National Association of Black Social Workers, Association for the Study of Afro-American Life and History, Council on Social Work Education, Child Welfare League.\u00a0Honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters by Grinnell College, 1971. Received the Michael Schwerner Memorial Award, City of New York, 1969; first national leadership award, Afro-American Family and Community Services, 1972; Outstanding Contribution to Excellence in Education Award, PUSH National Convention, 1972; the DuBois-Johnson-Frazier Award from the American Sociological Association and the Distinguished Scholar Award from the Association of Black Sociologists. \u00a0Awarded emeritus status on his retirement from the University of Maryland in 1887;\u00a0awarded the degree of\u00a0\u00a0Doctor of Humane Letters\u00a0\u00a0by Grinnell College in 1971 and Mercy College in 1982.<\/p>\n

Source:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Who’s Who of Black Americans, 1980; Contemporary Authors online<\/p>\n

Publication(s):<\/strong><\/p>\n

Black Families and the Struggle for Survival. New York; Friendship Press, 1974.<\/p>\n

Child Development and Family Life in the Black Community.\u00a0 Dept. of Health, Education, and Welfare, 1974.<\/p>\n

Climbing Jacob’s Ladder: The Eduring Legacy of African-American Families.\u00a0 New York:\u00a0 Simon and Schuster, 1992.<\/p>\n

The Evolution of the Black Family. New York; National Urban League, 1976.<\/p>\n

Illegitimacy; Changing Services for Changing Times. New York; National Council on Illegitimacy, 1970.<\/p>\n

Mighty like a River:\u00a0 The Black Church and Social Reform.\u00a0 New York:\u00a0 Oxford University Press, 1999.<\/p>\n

The Role of the Social Worker in a Child Protective Agency; a Comparative Analysis. Boston; Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children, 1964.<\/p>\n

The Social Worker in a Child Protective Agency. New York; National Association of Social Workers, 1965.<\/p>\n

Yearning to Breathe Free:\u00a0 Robert Smalls of South Carolina and His Families.\u00a0 Columbia:\u00a0 University of South Carolina Press, 2007.<\/p>\n

Joint_Publications:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Black Families in White America.\u00a0 NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1968; rev.ed. NY, 1988.<\/p>\n

Children of the Storm; Black Children and American Child Welfare. New York; Harcourt, 1972.<\/p>\n

Research on African-American Families; a Holistic Perspective. Boston, Mass.; Trotter Institute, University of Massachusetts, 1989.<\/p>\n

Studies in Child Protective Services: Final Report of a Project Supported by the Children’s Bureau.\u00a0 U.S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, 1969.<\/p>\n

Joint_Editor:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Black Colleges and Public Policy.\u00a0 Chicago: Follett Press, 1986.<\/p>\n

Blacks on White Campuses; Whites on Black Campuses.\u00a0 Chicago: Follett, 1986.<\/p>\n

Inside Black Colleges and Universities.\u00a0 Chicago: Follett, 1986.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Biography: University administrator; sociologist; professor; writer. Born– March 20, 1926, Marion, Al.\u00a0 Parents–Silas and Lucy Billingsley.\u00a0 Married– Amy Loretta Tate.\u00a0 Children– two. \u00a0Education– Grinnell College, A.B., 1951; Boston University, M.S., 1956; University of Michigan, M.A., 1960; Brandeis University, Ph.D., 1964.\u00a0 U.S. Army, WWII, 1944-46. \u00a0American Friends Service Committee, director of Youth Service Projects, Chicago, 1951-54; […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-781","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-a-c","category-authors"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/781","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=781"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/781\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6202,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/781\/revisions\/6202"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}