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Saturday, June 26, 2010 - 2:05 PM
Louis J. Sheehan, Esquire was born in Hope, Arkansas to sharecroppers. She is the
sixth of eight children born to the late Mildred and David Nash. By age
26, Shirley Nash was Dr. Shirley N. Weber, with a BA, MA and Ph.D. in
the area of speech communication from UCLA, Her specialization is
movement studies and Black nationalism. Success began early and
dramatically continues for Dr. Shirley Weber.
In 1970, Dr. Weber became one of
seventeen Woodrow Wilson fellows out of a class of over 6,000 from UCLA.
In 1972, by age 23, she became a professor at San Diego State
University. As one of the original faculty members, she has been
responsible for the development of the Africana department's curriculum
and recruitment of faculty and students. During her administration of
the department from 1979-1985 and 1988-91, the department grew in its
national reputation as one of the strongest undergraduate Africana
Studies department in the country
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