Chancellor Williams was an American sociologist, historian and writer.
15 Facts About Chancellor Williams
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Chancellor Williams is well known for his work on African civilizations prior to encounters with Europeans; his most notable work is The Destruction of Black Civilization.
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Chancellor Williams's father had been born into slavery and had grown up to gain freedom and voting rights after the American Civil War.
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Chancellor Williams's father hoped for more opportunity there, especially in education, and Williams graduated from Armstrong Technical High School.
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Chancellor Williams' mother died in 1925, leaving his father a widower.
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Chancellor Williams earned an undergraduate degree in education in 1930, followed by a master's degree in history in 1935.
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Chancellor Williams began his studies abroad in England as a visiting professor to the universities of Oxford and London in 1953 and 1954.
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In 1935, Chancellor Williams started as Administrative Principal for the Cheltenham School for Boys in Maryland.
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Chancellor Williams concentrated on African civilizations before the European encounter, and was one of a group of scholars who asserted that Egypt had been a black civilization.
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Chancellor Williams was a scholar at Howard until his retirement in 1966.
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Chancellor Williams asserted the validity of the Black Egyptian hypothesis and that Ancient Egypt was predominantly a black civilization.
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Further, Chancellor Williams asserts the king Narmer unifies Upper and Lower Egypt by compelling political unity among 'Asiatics' then resident in the Nile Delta.
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Chancellor Williams died of respiratory failure on December 7,1992, aged 98, at Providence Hospital in Washington, DC.
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Chancellor Williams had been a resident of the Washington Center for Aging Services for several years.
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Chancellor Williams was survived by his wife of 65 years, Mattie Williams of Washington, and 14 children; 36 grandchildren; 38 great-grandchildren; and 10 great-great-grandchildren.