Dr. Tom Crosby

Tom Crosby was born in Fairfield County, SC and grew up in Union County, SC, where he graduated with honors from Sims High School. Dr. Crosby was an honor graduate of Allen University in Columbia, SC, and he received a MA in Biology from Indiana University and a Doctor of Philosophy from Pennsylvania State University. He taught biology at Morgan State University and was the Department Chair of the Allen University Science Department. Dr. Crosby conducted forty-three interviews of individuals that attended segregated Rosenwald Schools in South Carolina, which can be found online in the University of South Carolina Oral History Collections. He interviewed additional individuals who attended Rosenwald Schools in South Carolina through a grant from the Richland County Conservation Commission, and he coordinated the placement of a historical marker at his former elementary school in Union County that was a “Rosenwald-like” structure. Dr. Crosby serves on the Grants and Program Committee of the SC Humanities Board.