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Barbara Ann Posey Jones (born 1943) is an American economist who was a leader of the 1958
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as a high school student. Since 1971, she has been a professor of economics, department head, and Dean at several
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in the American South. She is a past president of the
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. In 2021, she was awarded the Suzan Shown Harjo Systemic Social Justice Award from the National Conference on Race and Ethnicity in Higher Education.


Early life, activism, and education

Jones joined the youth council of the Oklahoma City
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at the age of 14, and on a visit to a freedom rally in
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, ate at a lunch counter for the first time. On her return home, she became one of the spokespeople for the youth Oklahoma lunch counter sit-ins of 1958–1959. The Chi Zeta Chapter of Zeta Phi Zeta Sorority named her "Girl of the Year" of 1958, ''Datebook'' magazine published her article, "Why I Sit In" in 1960, and she gave a speech entitled "My America" at the 51st Annual NAACP Convention in June 1960. She graduated from the University of Oklahoma in 1963, and completed a master's degree in economics at the
University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign The University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (U of I, Illinois, University of Illinois, or UIUC) is a public land-grant research university in Illinois in the twin cities of Champaign and Urbana. It is the flagship institution of the Universit ...
in 1966. There, she met her husband, political scientist Mack Jones, at a 1962 NAACP meeting. She completed a PhD in economics at
Georgia State University Georgia State University (Georgia State, State, or GSU) is a Public university, public research university in Atlanta, Atlanta, Georgia. Founded in 1913, it is one of the University System of Georgia's four research universities. It is also the ...
in 1973.


Economics career

Jones began her career at
Texas Southern University Texas Southern University (Texas Southern or TSU) is a public historically black university in Houston, Texas. The university is one of the largest and most comprehensive historically black college or universities in the USA with nearly 10,000 ...
and then continued work as an economics professor at
Clark College Clark College is a public community college in Vancouver, Washington. With 11,500 students, Clark College is the largest institution of higher education in southwest Washington. Founded in 1933 as a private two-year junior college, Clark Colleg ...
(which became Clark Atlanta University), serving as department chair even before she finished her PhD. She taught there from 1971 to 1987, winning numerous teaching awards. She joined Prairie View A&M as department chair in 1987, quickly becoming Dean of the College of Business from 1989 to 1997. In 1997, she became Dean of the School of Business at
Alabama A&M University Alabama Agricultural and Mechanical University (Alabama A&M) is a public historically black land-grant university in Normal, Huntsville, Alabama. Founded in 1875, it took its present name in 1969. AAMU is a member-school of the Thurgood Marsh ...
, where she served as a professor of Economics until her retirement in 2016.


Research publications

* Jones, Barbara AP. "Black women and labor force participation: An analysis of sluggish growth rates." The Review of Black Political Economy 14, no. 2-3 (1985): 11–31. * Jones, Barbara Ann Posey. The contributions of Black women to the incomes of Black families: an analysis of the labor force participation rates of Black wives. Georgia State University, 1973.


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Further reading

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