Alton Hornsby Jr.

Alton Parker Hornsby Jr. (September 3, 1940 – September 1, 2017) was an American historian, professor, author, and editor. He was a leading scholar of Black Southern history, and is a professor emeritus of history at Morehouse College, which was also his alma mater. Early life and education Alton Parker Hornsby Jr. was born on September 3, 1940 in Georgia.

The Auburn Avenue Research Library on African American Culture and History in Atlanta has a collection of his papers. The Georgia State University Library archive contains his photograph, which was used in a 1984 newspaper article. In 2006, Hornsby was interviewed about his role in the Atlanta Student Movement, and the video of the interview is available online and at the Atlanta History Center.

Writings In the Cage. Eyewitness Accounts of the Freed Negro in Southern Society, 1877–1929 (1971), as editor The Black Almanac (1972) The Negro in Revolutionary Georgia (1977) Milestones In 20th-century African-American History (1993) Chronology of African American History (2000) Southerners, Too?: Essays on the Black South, 1733–1990 (2004) A Companion to African American History (2005) 'Zell We Hardly Knew Ye'; Zell Miller and the Politics of Region, Gender, Class, and Race 2000–2005 (2007) Black Power in Dixie: A Political History of African Americans in Atlanta (2009) African Americans in the Post-Emancipation South; The Outsiders' View (2010) Black America: A State-by-State Historical Encyclopedia (2011), two volumes A Short History of Black Atlanta, 1847–1993 (2015)