Dr. Henry Lewis Suggs is professor emeritus of American history at Clemson University. He received his bachelor's and master's degrees in history from North Carolina Central University, and his Ph.D in American History from the University of Virginia. Dr. Suggs joined the history department at Clemson University in 1983 as an assistant professor and in 1992 became the second African American faculty member to be promoted to the rank of full professor. In 2003, NCCU Chancellor James H. Ammons appointed Dr. Suggs scholar in residence and tasked him with writing the history of NCCU. Dr. Suggs is the author of numerous articles on the American South, African American history and African American journalism. His previous books include The Black Press in the Middle West, 1865-1985; P.B. Young, Newspaperman: Race, Politics, and Journalism in the New South, 1910-1962; and The Black Press in the South, 1865-1979.