found: African American National Biography, accessed November 17, 2014, via Oxford African American Studies Center database:(Applegate, Joseph R.; linguist, educator, translator, Africanist, scholar of Arabic and Berber; born 04 December 1925 in Wildwood, New Jersey, United States; graduated from Temple University with a bachelor of science in Education (1945); taught at William Penn Senior High School (1947-1955); received PhD in Linguistics from the University of Pennsylvania (1955); studied Asian, Near Eastern languages and languages of North Africa, among them Arabic and Berber languages of Morocco; was the first American to write on Berber; joined the MIT machine translation project in the Research Laboratory of Electronics (1955); assistant professor of Modern Languages (1956); grant from the U.S. Office of Education to continue research on the Berber languages (1960); worked at Department of Near Eastern and African Languages, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) (1966); produced a basic Manual of Libyan Arabic (1968) and a basic Manual of Tamachek (1968), both for the Peace Corps; associate professor of Linguistics at Howard University (1966); director of the African Studies and Research Program (1967-1969); served as a graduate professor of African Studies (1969-2002); developed PhD Program in African Studies, the first in the nation; died 18 October 2003 in Washington, District of Columbia, United States)
