Delores P. Aldridge

Aldridge was born on June 8, 1941, in Tampa, Florida, to Willie Lee Aldridge and Mary Ellen Bennett Aldridge. She was privately schooled at Allen Temple A.M.E Church, and then attended Meacham Elementary School, Booker T. Washington Junior High School, and Middleton High School. In 1959, she was the valedictorian of Middleton High School. In 1972, she studied African politics and art at the University of Ghana at Legon. In 1979, Aldridge completed her postgraduate study at Georgetown University. ==Career==

Aldridge became a faculty member at Emory University in 1971. She was the first tenure-track African American faculty member at the institution. She was a member of Clark College's board of trustees. In 1988, she became a member of Clark Atlanta University's board of trustees after the university was founded. She was the director of the program until 1990. Aldridge additionally served as the president of the National Council for Black Studies for two terms and acted as a board chairman for the International Black Women's Congress (IBWC). During her time with the IBWC, she organized conferences regarding health issues prevalent within African female communities. In 1998 and 1992, Aldridge studied issues of gender and race abroad in the Soviet Union and Brazil. Aldridge was the first professor at any major university to receive a chair that was named for an African American woman's honor. She has published over 150 articles and books. As of 2014, Aldridge is the Board Secretary and Chair of the Academic Affairs committee at Clark Atlanta University. ==Awards==

Aldridge served as president of the National Council of Black Studies for two terms. In 2004, Clark Atlanta University began the Clark Atlanta University Graduate Research Award. Clark Atlanta University also bestows the Aldridge/McMillan Awards for Excellence. ==Books==

• A Decade of Struggle: Options for the Future (1981) • Black Male-Female Relationships: A Resource Book of Selected Materials (1989) • Focusing: Black Male-Female Relationships (1991) • Leadership for Diversity: The Role of African American Studies in a Multicultural World (1994) • ''River of Tears: The Politics of Black Women's Health'' (1993), with La Francis Rodgers-Rose • Out of the Revolution: The development of Africana studies, with Carlene Young (2000) • Black Cultures and Race Relations (2002), with James E. Conyers • Africana Studies: Philosophical Perspectives and Theoretical Paradigms, with E Lincoln James (2007) • Our Last Hope: Black Male-Female Relationships in Change (2008) • Imagine a World: Pioneering Black Women Sociologists (2009) • An Intellectual Biography of W.E.B. DuBois, Initiator of Black Studies in the University, with Nagueyalti Warren (2010) ==References==