Russell L. Adams

Russell L. Adams (born August 13, 1930) is an American author and professor. He is the Chairman of the Afro-American studies Department at Howard University, Washington, D.C.

Biography Russell Lee Adams was born on August 13, 1930, in Baltimore, Maryland, to James Russell Adams and Lilly B. (Ponder) Adams. He received his elementary and high-school education in Quitman, Georgia, graduating from Washington Street High School in 1948. He received a scholarship to attend Morehouse College, Atlanta, where he majored in political science and sociology, earning his B.A. degree in 1952, and going on to the University of Chicago, where in 1954 he earned an M.A. degree, and where he would later return to receive a Ph.D. in 1971.