Gloster, Hugh M. (Hugh Morris), 1911-2002

found: LC database, 21 July 2005(hdg.: Gloster, Hugh Morris, 1911-; usage: Hugh M. Gloster)

found: NYTimes online, viewed May 22, 2008(Hugh Morris Gloster; ex-president of Morehouse College; d. Feb. 16, 2002)

found: African American National Biography, accessed January 30, 2015, via Oxford African American Studies Center database:(Gloster, Hugh Morris; college/ university president, educator, soldier; born 11 May 1911 in Brownsville, Tennessee, United States; BA in English from Morehouse College, (1931); MA in English from Atlanta University (1933); PhD in literature at New York University (1941); one of the founders of the College Language Association (CLA) on the LeMoyne campus (1937); CLA's first and fifth president (1937-1938, 1948-1950); executive board member of the CLA (1937-2002); drafted for military service and sent to Fort Huachuca, Arizona (1943-1946); scholar and administrator at the Hampton Institute in Hampton, Virginia; critical acclaim for publication Negro Voices in American Fiction (1948); coedited the best-selling college textbook, My Life- My Country- My World (1948); president of Morehouse College (1967); member of the Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Sigma Pi Phi Boule, and Phi Beta Kappa National Honor Society; died 16 February 2002 in Atlanta, Georgia, United States)