Gloria Long Anderson

Gloria Long Anderson (born November 5, 1938) is the Fuller E. Callaway Professor of Chemistry at Morris Brown College, and its vice president for academic affairs. She has served as interim president of Morris Brown, and as vice chair of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. She was a pioneer in the field of nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy, and is known for her studies of fluorine-19 and solid rocket propellants.

Early life

Anderson was born November 5, 1938, in Altheimer, Arkansas, where she was raised.

She is the daughter of Elsie Lee Foggie Long, a seamstress, and Charles Long, a sharecropper, with a tenth and third grade education, respectively. They lived in a mixed-race, segregated farming community.

Career

Academia In 1968, Anderson chose to conduct her post-doctoral research at a historically Black college ("it didn't make a difference which one"