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Wake Forest University Receives $1M Gift Toward African American Studies

Wake Forest University Receives $1M Gift Toward African American Studies by Neal Charnoff 10:57am Jan 27, 2021 Wake Forest University Professor of Humanities Corey Walker will be the inaugural director of a new African American Studies program. Photo credit: Wake Forest University. Wake Forest University has received a $1 million anonymous gift to support a new African American Studies program that begins this fall.  The gift will establish a fund named for Dr. Dolly A. McPherson , a long-time Wake Forest English professor who made significant contributions to African American literary studies. McPherson came to Wake Forest in the 1970s as the first full-time Black female faculty member. She died in 2011.

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