Faculty Scholarship

DR. GEORGE F. BAGBY, ELLIOTT PROFESSOR OF ENGLISH

ELLIOTT PROFESSOR of English George F. Bagby, Jr., continues to work on a biography of African-American educator Hollis F. Price. A native of Gloucester County, Virginia, Price (1904-1982) spent twenty-seven years (1943-1970) as president of LeMoyne College in Memphis, and for most of those years was a key bridge between the black and white communities of Memphis.

Last January The Alabama Review published Bagby’s article “Hollis F. Price: Apprenticeship at Tuskegee Institute, 1933-1940,” detailing Price’s fi rst years as a college educator. In October Bagby delivered a paper at the annual convention of the Association for the Study of African-American Life and History: “Hollis F. Price and the Public Schools of Memphis.” The paper describes Price’s contributions to the effort in the 1950s to force Memphis State University to desegregate and his two later campaigns for the Memphis Board of Education.

Bagby has been at the College since 1972. He holds the B.A. degree from Haverford College and the M.A. and Ph.D. from Yale University.

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Hampden-Sydney College Faculty Scholarship 2005-2008
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