Ancella Bickley | |
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Born | Ancella Radford Bickley July 4, 1930 |
Title | Professor Emeritus |
Academic background | |
Education | West Virginia State College, Marshall University |
Alma mater | West Virginia University |
Academic work | |
Discipline | Historian |
Sub-discipline | African-American history |
Institutions | West 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.