Horace Huntley

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Horace Huntley is a professor at the University of Alabama, Birmingham in the School of Social and Behavioral Sciences. Dr. Huntley has worked extensively as a historian in the field of Civil Rights. He worked at the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute researching and interpreting oral histories for a book, Black Workers' Struggle for Equality in Birmingham, which he authored with Yale University historian David Montgomery. The book, which was published in 2004 cateloged the relationships between African-American workers and labor unions in the post-Civil Rights American South. He also authored A Master Option Trader's Journey From Pipe Shop To Wall Street - The Life and Times of Terry Harris in 2005 that tells the story of a young Black man, born in Bessemer, Alabama who teaches himself the art of option trading on Wall Street and then develops a system to teach other poor people the same. In 2006 he co-authored Nerve Juice And The Ivory Tower - Confrontation in Minnesota - The True Story Of The Morrill Hall Takeover which tells the story of Black student's quest at the University of Minnesota for a Black Studies Department. The co-authors are Marie Braddock Williams and Rose Freeman Massey. Huntley is a native of Birmingham, Alabama and graduate of Wenonah High School. He was one of the first recipients of the Baccalaureate Degree in African American Studies from the University of Minnesota. Received the Masters Degree from Syracuse University and the doctorate from the University of Pittsburgh. He developed the minor in African American Studies at UAB and for more than twenty-five years has offered a series of courses on the experiences of Africans of the diaspora. In addition, Huntley has served as an Alabama Humanities Foundation Scholar, on the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute Task Force, a founding member of the Institute. He served on the Birmingham Historical Commission, the Birmingham Historical Society and as an evaluator of the Fellowship Office of the National Research Council of the National Science Foundation.