Recent Publications of Professor Donald Scott

Assistant Professor Donald Scott, Sr. of the English Department contributed several essays to “The Encyclopedia of Jim Crow,” published October 2008 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt’s Greenwood Publishing Group. Hailed as the first encyclopedia “devoted to the Jim Crow era” of segregation and racism against blacks following the Civil War and through much of the 1900s, the “authoritative entries are written by a host of historians with expertise in the Jim Crow era,” according to the two-volume books’ description.  Scott focused on police brutality, South Carolina and the great migrations of blacks to the Northeastern and Western areas of the U.S. The publication was edited by Grambling University professors Nikki L.M. Brown and Barry M. Stentiford.

Scott also wrote five essays for the landmark African American National Biography book and online project, published by Oxford University Press and edited by Harvard University professors Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and Evelyn Higginbotham. Published in May 2008, the multi-volume project focuses on the accomplishments of African Americans throughout this country’s history.  Scott wrote about the New York Times journalist Brent Staples, Commander Wesley A. Brown (the first African American to graduate from the U.S. Naval Academy who’s Scott’s father-in-law), Dr. Ethel Allen, Philadelphia’s first African-American city councilwoman and Secretary of the State of Pennsylvania; the 19th-century Philadelphia educator, scholar and black rights’ activist, Octavius V. Catto; and, the 19th-century Philadephia anti-slavery activist and founder of the first black Presbyterian church, the Rev. John Gloucester.