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Hine, Darlene Clark

1947-present · Contribution: 1980-2005

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Helped found the field of Black women's history as a serious area of academic study, establishing the first comparative doctoral program in African American history at Michigan State University in 1987 and editing Black Women in America, the first major historical encyclopedia devoted to the subject

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Hine effectively founded Black women's history as a scholarly field, building its reference works, training its scholars, and ensuring Black women were not erased from the record.

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