1929
Doris
2014
Doris Bright
June 26, 1929 — March 7, 2014
Doris Valentine Bright was born on June 26, 1929 to Mary Geneva Jordan and Everett Valentine in Elkton, Maryland. Though born during the Great Depression, her life was far from depressed! She enjoyed a very prolific career as a teacher, college professor, author, sociologist and anthropologist for over 45 years. Highlights from her illustrious background include: a grant from the National Institute of Mental Health, she was a Research Associate with the Department of Religious Studies at the University of Missouri, a National Institute of Mental Health Post Doctoral Fellow at the Center for Research on Women at Memphis State University, and an Independent Scholar at the Institute for Teaching and Research on women at Towson University in Towson, Maryland.
Dr. Bright was an Educator for the Baltimore County, Maryland Public School System from 1956-1985. She taught English, History, Social Studies, Developmental Reading, Corrective and Remedial Reading. Her responsibilities included the implementation, facilitation and enrichment of curriculum courses of study. She designed, developed and assessed Developmental Reading Programs. On the college level, she was an Adjunct Professor at Antioch University in Baltimore, MD where she taught Urban Black Folk Medicine, Racism & Sexism Issues and Social Change and Third World Literature. She was an Assistant Professor of Comparative African Religions at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County and an Instructor of African Studies at Frederick Community College.
She received her B.A. in Social Sciences and History from Bennett College in Greensboro, NC in 1950. From 1971-1974 she worked on and received her M.A.in African Studies and Social Anthropology from Howard University and the University of Ghana-Institute of African Studies (two years of classroom and field studies at the University of Ghana in Accra, West Africa). She was awarded an Interdisciplinary Doctor of Philosophy, Sociology/Anthropology and African Religions from the Union Institute, Cincinnati, Ohio in 1977.
Dr. Bright has one daughter Geneva Baker-Cotton (Thomas Cotton). She is also survived by Gloria Cotton of Bartlett, IL and close relatives: stepdaughter
Luella Bright of Columbia, MD, Ray Jefferson, Jr., Doris Briscoe, Beverly Brown, Nola Earl, and Leon Braywood of Elkton, MD.
Arrangements by Countryside Funeral Home, Bartlett. Cremation by Countryside Crematory. Memorial Services will be held in Elkton, MD.
Dr. Bright was an Educator for the Baltimore County, Maryland Public School System from 1956-1985. She taught English, History, Social Studies, Developmental Reading, Corrective and Remedial Reading. Her responsibilities included the implementation, facilitation and enrichment of curriculum courses of study. She designed, developed and assessed Developmental Reading Programs. On the college level, she was an Adjunct Professor at Antioch University in Baltimore, MD where she taught Urban Black Folk Medicine, Racism & Sexism Issues and Social Change and Third World Literature. She was an Assistant Professor of Comparative African Religions at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County and an Instructor of African Studies at Frederick Community College.
She received her B.A. in Social Sciences and History from Bennett College in Greensboro, NC in 1950. From 1971-1974 she worked on and received her M.A.in African Studies and Social Anthropology from Howard University and the University of Ghana-Institute of African Studies (two years of classroom and field studies at the University of Ghana in Accra, West Africa). She was awarded an Interdisciplinary Doctor of Philosophy, Sociology/Anthropology and African Religions from the Union Institute, Cincinnati, Ohio in 1977.
Dr. Bright has one daughter Geneva Baker-Cotton (Thomas Cotton). She is also survived by Gloria Cotton of Bartlett, IL and close relatives: stepdaughter
Luella Bright of Columbia, MD, Ray Jefferson, Jr., Doris Briscoe, Beverly Brown, Nola Earl, and Leon Braywood of Elkton, MD.
Arrangements by Countryside Funeral Home, Bartlett. Cremation by Countryside Crematory. Memorial Services will be held in Elkton, MD.
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