Ora Williams

Ruby Ora Williams (1926–2009) was an American literary scholar and bibliographer, 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 in 1968. A participant in the university's pioneering equal opportunities program, she and Clyde Taylor designed and shaped the black studies program at CSU in the early 1970s. 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