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| Dr. Melton McLaurin Professor Emeritus UNCW Department of History |
Melton McLaurin received his Ph.D. in American history from the University of South Carolina in 1967 and taught at the University of South Alabama prior to joining the UNCW department of history as chairperson in 1977. From 1996 until 2003 he served as Associate Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs, retiring in 2004. He is the author or co-author of nine books and numerous articles on various aspects of the history of the American South and race relations . Among his best know works are Separate Pasts, Growing Up White in the Segregated South (University of Georgia Press, 1987), which won the Lillian Smith Award for nonfiction, and Celia, A Slave (University of Georgia Press, 1991), which was chosen as a New York Times notable book for that year. His current research interests are autobiography and history and race relations in the era of segregation. Dr. McLaurin was writer/director of the video documentary The Marines of Montford Point: Fighting for Freedom (2006), narrated by Louis Gossett, Jr., which chronicles the story of the nation's first African American Marines. Dr. McLaurin also is the author of The Marines of Montford Point: America's First Black Marines, published by UNC Press ( 2007), which contains additional material on the Montford Point Marines, and the creator of a website on the Marines of Montford Point.