William Taylor Burwell Williams (July 3, 1869 – March 26, 1941)Frederik Ohles, Shirley M. Ohles, John G. Ramsay - Biographical Dictionary of Modern American Educators was an American educator. He was Dean of the College Department at Tuskegee Institute and two-time president of the National Association of Teachers in Colored Schools (later renamed the American Teachers Association, it merged with the NEA in 1966). He was a member of U.S. Commissions on Education in Haiti and the Virgin Islands, and a member of the U.S. War Department Committee on Education and Special Training. Williams worked as a field agent of the Slater and Jeanes Funds and the General Education Board. He taught at Hampton Institute and was a member of the editorial staff of its journal Southern Workman. In 1934, he was the recipient of the NAACP's Spingarn Medal.National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (2009). Spingarn Medal Winners .William Taylor Burwell Williams The Crisis July 1924, p. 202
Williams was born on a farm near Stone Bridge, Virginia. He graduated from Hampton Institute in 1888, Phillips Academy in 1893 and Harvard University in 1897.Frederik Ohles, Shirley M. Ohles, John G. Ramsay - Biographical Dictionary of Modern American EducatorsWilliam Taylor Burwell Williams The Crisis July 1924, p. 202 He received an LL. D. from Morehouse College in 1923.
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