Ruby Ora Williams (1926–2009) was an American literary scholar and

bibliographer Bibliography (from and ), as a discipline, is traditionally the academic study of books as physical, cultural objects; in this sense, it is also known as bibliology (from ). English author and bibliographer John Carter describes ''bibliography ...

, known for her bibliographies of black women's writing.

Life

Ora Williams was the daughter of Ida Bolles (Roach) Williams. She became professor at

California State University, Long Beach California State University, Long Beach (CSULB) is a public research university in Long Beach, California. The 322-acre campus is the second largest of the 23-school California State University system (CSU) and one of the largest universities i ...

in 1968.CSU-LB
Emeriti Faculty
''2013-14 University Catalog'' A participant in the university's pioneering equal opportunities program, she and

Clyde Taylor Clyde R. Taylor (born 1931) is an American writer and film scholar, who is an emeritus professor at New York University. His scholarship and commentary often focuses on black film. Career Taylor is a contributor to journals such as '' Black Film R ...

designed and shaped the black studies program at CSU in the early 1970s.Doris Nelson
The real birth of black studies
''49er'', Vol. LIV, No. 75. She retired in 1988.

Works

* 'A Bibliography of Works Written by American Black Women', ''College Language Association Journal'', 1972. Published in book form as ''American Black women in the arts and social sciences : a bibliographic survey'', Metuchen, N.J. : Scarecrow Press, 1973. * ''An In-Depth Portrait of Alice Dunbar-Nelson'', Ph.D. dissertation, University of California at Irvine, 1974 * (ed.) ''Works of Eva Jessye'' * ''An In-Depth Portrait of Alice Dunbar-Nelson'', 1975 * 'Works by and About Alice Ruth (Moore) Dunbar-Nelson: A Bibliography', ''College Language Association Journal'' 19 (1976) * (ed.) ''American Black Women in the Arts and Social Sciences: A Bibliographic Survey'', 1978 * (ed.) ''An Alice Dunbar-Nelson Reader''. Washington, DC: University Press of America, 1979. * ''Just like a meteor: a bio-bibliography of the life and works of Charles William Williams, a New Jersey African-American'', Glassboro, N.J.: Meteor Books, 1994

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Williams, Ora 1926 births 2009 deaths American literary historians American bibliographers Women bibliographers American women historians Women literary historians 20th-century American historians 20th-century American women writers California State University, Long Beach faculty 21st-century American women