Born in Bennettsville, South Carolina (1898-1992)Dr. Williams was a sociologist, historian and writer. His work was spacious and varied, however his crowning glory is his opus, The Destruction of Black Civilization, which took him 16 years of research and field study to compile.Historian Runoko Rashidi states it best:“Of the recent towering figures in the struggle to completely eradicate the pervasive racial myths clinging to the origins of Nile Valley Civilization, few scholars have had the impact of Dr. Chancellor James Williams. Chancellor Williams, the youngest of five children, was born in Bennetsville, South Carolina, December 22, 1898. His father had been a slave; his mother a cook, nurse, and evangelist.“[In] The Destruction of Black Civilization Chancellor Williams successfully shifted the main focus from the history of Arabs and Europeans in Africa to the Africans themselves–a history of the Blacks that is a history of Blacks.”Posted by Tracy (atlantablackstar.com)
Dr. Chancellor Williams
