Annual celebrations of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s legacy at MIT
11th Annual MLK Celebration Keynote
Michael R.
Winston
Vice President for Academic Affairs, Howard University
Courtesy Howard University
Dr. Michael Winston earned a B.A. in history magna cum laude by Howard University (1962), where he was appointed to the faculty in1964. A Woodrow Wilson Fellowship and a John Hay Whitney Fellowship enabled him to complete graduate work in European history at the University of California, Berkeley, where he earned an M.A. in French History and a Ph.D. in European History.
Dr. Winston is co-author with Rayford W. Logan of The Negro in the United States, Vol. II (1970), and author of The Howard University Department of History, 1913-1973. He is also co-editor with Rayford W. Logan of The Dictionary of American Negro Biography (1982), and co-editor with Genna Rae McNeil of Historical Judgments Reconsidered (1988).