Evelyn brooks higginbotham biography definition

American professor (born 1945)

Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham (born 1945) is an American academic who is professor of Afro-American Studies, African American Religion and the Victor S.

Thomas Professor of History and African American Studies at Harvard University.^[1] Higginbotham wrote Righteous Discontent: The Women's Movement in the Black Baptist Church: 1880–1920, which won several awards.

She has also received several awards for her work, most notably the 2014 National Humanities Medal.

Early life and education

Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham was born in Washington, DC, United States, in 1945 to Albert Neal Dow Brooks and his wife Alma Elaine Campbell.^[1] Higginbotham's father served as secretary treasurer for the Association for the Study of Afro-American Life and History as well as edited the organization's Negro History Bulletin.

Her mother, Alma Elaine Campbell, a high-school history teacher, later became the supervisor fo