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Adelaide M. Cromwell
American sociologist and professor · United States · On the map · Academics · Lived 1919 to 2019 · aged 99
Adelaide McGuinn Cromwell was an American sociologist and professor emeritus at Boston University, where she co-founded the African Studies Center in 1959, and directed the graduate program in Afro-American studies from 1969 to 1985. She was the first African-American instructor at Hunter College and at Smith College.
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In 1974 she was appointed as the first African-American Library Commissioner for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. She wrote several books on black history, including a groundbreaking study of Boston's black upper class and a biography of Adelaide Casely-Hayford. She died in June 2019 at the age of 99.
