On this date in 1898 Dr. Chancellor Williams was born in Bennettsville, South Carolina, as the last of five children to a former slave. He would move with his family to Washington DC in the early 1900s. He got his undergrad and Masters degrees from Howard University. Williams is known as one of the greatest historians of the black diaspora and author of The Destruction of Black Civilization.

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