About Merle Black
Born 1942. Merle Black is an American political scientist.
P. Merle Black (born 1942) is a retired American political scientist. He was formerly Asa Griggs Candler Professor of Political Science at Emory University. He specializes in Southern politics, particularly in the 20th and 21st centuries.
Career Black attended Harvard University, where he graduated with a bachelor's degree in 1964. He then joined the Peace Corps, and spent two years teaching in Liberia. and The Vital South.
Black was President of the Southern Political Science Association from 2002 to 2003. Black won the Southern Political Science Association's 2004 V. O. Key award, together with Taeku Lee as well as his brother Earl Black.
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American political scientist
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Merle Black was born in 1942.
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