Purvis Melvin Carter

Background

Carter, Purvis Melvin was born on November 22, 1925 in Columbus, Texas, United States. Son of Earnest and Daisy Sammie (Jones) Carter.

Education

AB, Tillotson College, 1948. Master of Arts, Howard University, 1950. Postgraduate, University Denver, 1954—1955.

Doctor of Philosophy, University Colorado, 1970.

Career

Teacher-coach Harlingen Indiana School District, 1950—1955. Instructor department history Prairie View Advertising & Marketing University, 1956—1960, assistant professor, 1960—1966, associate professor, since 1966. Exchange professor Prairie View Agricultural and Mechanical-Texas Agricultural and Mechanical University, since 1981.

Consultant, lecturer Texas observance Black History Month. Consultant race relation activities. Consultant Foreign Relations Series United States, Office Historian, United States Department State.

Teacher Bethlehem Study Course Bethlehem Methodist Women Society Christian Service. Consultant World Without War Council, University Chicago, 1981.

Achievements

• Purvis Melvin Carter has been listed as a noteworthy history professor by Marquis Who's Who.

Membership

Member Texas History Commission. Active member Waller High School Texas Booster Club,=, Sam Houston Area Council Boy Scouts America. Member of American Association of University Professors, Society Historians American Foreign Relations, Association Study Negro Life and History, Western History Association, Organization American Historians, Waller County History Societies, Texas History Societies, Southern History Societies, Phi Alpha Theta (Phi Epsilon chapter, lay leader 1970-1972).

Connections

Married Gwendolyn M. Burns Carter, June 1, 1956. Children: Purvis Melvin, Frederick Earl, Burnest Denise.

Father:

Earnest Carter

Mother:

Daisy Sammie (Jones) Carter

Spouse:

Gwendolyn M. Burns Carter

child:

Purvis Melvin Carter

child:

Frederick Earl Carter

child:

Burnest Denise Carter