Darwin Theodore Troy Turner (1931 - 1991)

Born 7 May 1931 in Cincinnati, Hamilton, Ohio, United States

Ancestors

Died 11 Feb 1991 at age 59 in Iowa City, Johnson, Iowa, United States

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Biography

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Dr. Turner was an educator, scholar and leading literary critic. He legitimized the inclusion of American and Black authors in academia, and was deemed the "Father of African American Studies" by the Phi Beta Kappa society.^[1]

Darwin was born in 1931. "Turner enrolled into the University of Cincinnati at the age of 13 and received his undergraduate degree within three years with Phi Beta Kappa honors as the youngest student ever to graduate from the school. In 1949, at the age of 18, he received his Masters degree in English and American Drama from the University of Cincinnati. By the time he was twenty-five years old, he received his PhD degree from the University of Chicago."^[2]

He died in 1991.

Sources

1. ↑ https://www.keyreporter.org/articles/2020/darwin-t-turner-father-of-african-american-studies/
2. ↑ https://www.blackpast.org/african-american-history/turner-darwin-t-1931-1991/

• "United States Census, 1940," database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:KWPP-MLB : 10 January 2021), Darwin Turner, Cincinnati, Hamilton, Ohio, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) 91-361, sheet 61A, line 18, family 136, Sixteenth Census of the United States, 1940, NARA digital publication T627. Records of the Bureau of the Census, 1790 - 2007, RG 29. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 2012, roll 3199.

• Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com : accessed 14 January 2021), memorial page for Dr Darwin Theodore Troy Turner (7 May 1931–11 Feb 1991), Find A Grave: Memorial #209852567, citing Union Baptist Cemetery, Cincinnati, Hamilton County, Ohio, USA ; Maintained by Chris Hanlin (contributor 47638705) .

See also:

• http://amsterdamnews.com/news/2017/aug/17/dr-darwin-t-turner-poet-teacher-and-leading-litera/

• https://magazine.foriowa.org/story.php?ed=true&storyid=1994

• https://web.archive.org/web/20170320214028/https://clas.uiowa.edu/sites/clas.uiowa.edu.afam/files/legacyD_Turner.pdf

• https://web.archive.org/web/20210121223227/https://clas.uiowa.edu/sites/clas.uiowa.edu.afam/files/DarwinTurner.pdf