Background
Brawley, Benjamin was born on April 22, 1882 in Columbia, South Carolina, United States. Son of Edward MacKnight and Margaret Sophronia (Dickerson) Brawley.
Brawley, Benjamin was born on April 22, 1882 in Columbia, South Carolina, United States. Son of Edward MacKnight and Margaret Sophronia (Dickerson) Brawley.
He studied at Atlanta Baptist College (renamed Morehouse College), graduating in 1901, earned his second Bachelor in 1906 from the University of Chicago, and received his Master"s degree from Harvard University in 1908.
Instructor in English, Atlanta Baptist College, 1902-1906, Professor of English, 1906-1910. Professor of English, Howard University, Washington, District of Columbia, 1910-1912. Dean and Professor of English, Morehouse College, 1912-1920.
Professor of English, Shaw University, Raleigh, North Carolina, 1923-1931, Howard University, since 1931.
In Africa, 1920; pastor Messiah Baptist Church, Brockton, Massachusetts, 1921-1922. President Association of Colleges for Negro Youth, 1919-1920.
Author: A Short History of the American Negro, 1913. The Negro in Literature and Art, 1918.
A Social History of the American Negro, 1921.
A Short History of the English Drama, 1921. A New Survey of English Literature, 1925. Freshman Year English, 1929.
Doctor Dillard of the Jeanes Fund, 1930.
History of the English Hymn, 1932. Early Negro American Writers, 1935.
Paul Laurence Dunbar, 1936. The Negro Genius, 1937.
Negro Builders and Heroes, 1937.
Address: Washington, Distric.
Married Hilda Damaris Prowd, July 20, 1912.