Wilma King
Wilma King (born 1942) is a historian and the Arvarh E. Strickland Distinguished Professor of History at the University of Missouri. She holds a B.A. in American history from Jackson State University, and both an M.A. and Ph.D. in Recent U.S. History from Indiana University. She came to the University of Missouri in 1999 and was the first to receive appointment to the Arvarh E. Strickland chair in Black History and Culture, established when Strickland retired. Selected bibliography Stolen Childhood: Slave Youth in Nineteenth-Century America (1995) References 1942 births African-American historians University of Missouri faculty Indiana University alumni Jackson State University alumni American historians of education Living people American women historians Place of birth missing (living people) 21st-century African-American academics 21st-century American academics 21st-century African-American women 20th-century African-American academics 20th-century American academics 20th-century African-American women African-American women writers