Michael Damien Benjamin

Michael Benjamin (elected October 1999) died August 6, 2020. Benjamin, an attorney in private practice, collected first editions of eighteenth-, nineteenth-, and early twentieth-century titles in African American history and literature. Later in life, he earned an M.A. in the history of the book in America as well as a Ph.D. in modern history and literature from Drew University and was at his death associate professor of history at Georgia Southern University. He also served on the board of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania.