Ancella Bickley

Ancella Bickley
Born
Ancella Radford Bickley

(1930-07-04) July 4, 1930 (age 94)
TitleProfessor Emeritus
Academic background
EducationWest Virginia State College,
Marshall University
Alma materWest Virginia University
Academic work
DisciplineHistorian
Sub-disciplineAfrican-American history
InstitutionsWest Virginia State University

Ancella Radford Bickley (born July 4, 1930) is an American historian born in Huntington, West Virginia. She earned a bachelor's degree in English from West Virginia State College, now West Virginia State University in 1950, a master's degree in English from Marshall University (where she was the first full-time African American student) in 1954, and an Ed.D. in English from West Virginia University in 1974.[1] She is involved in the preservation of African American history in West Virginia.

  1. ^ "Ancella Bickley - (1930 -) Huntington, Cabell County". West Virginia Library Commission.