People are familiar with the name Rosa Parks, but have your ever heard the name Mae Flemming? She refused to sit at the back of the bus seventeen months before Rosa Parks. Dr. Donaldson gives visibility to South Carolina stories that may have been over looked during civil rights.

Dr. Donaldson teaches courses in United States history and African American intellectual and cultural studies, with an
emphasis on the American South. In addition to the United States history survey class (1877-present) and the Introduction to African American Studies, Professor Donaldson teaches courses on African American intellectuals, African American Biography, the Harlem Renaissance, the Civil Rights struggle in South Carolina,
and research methods in African American Studies. Currently, Professor Donaldson serves on the Board of Trustees of Wesleyan University and holds as a 2005-2006 fellowship at the W. E. B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research at Harvard University.

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