Quaye Chapman Reed is a native of Water Valley, Mississippi, and resides in Stone Mountain, Georgia. She graduated from the University of Mississippi. Quaye worked in Education and in corporate America. She recruited students for Ole Miss and worked for East Tennessee State University, The Wall Street Journal, and McGraw-Hill Publishing Company. Upon Retirement, she established a business consulting firm. She is also a newspaper columnist. In 2018, Quaye started a project collecting biographies of women in Yalobusha County, MS, who impacted their community. Many of these biographies appeared bi-monthly in the North Mississippi Herald, and now in the anthology, Outstanding Black Women of Yalobusha County. Phase 2 of the project is underway with support from the University of Mississippi and will feature black families in Yalobusha County. Quaye shared her passion with me as we talked about her life, her Family, and the unsung women she brought to life in her newspaper column and book.
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I grew up in a rural community in South Carolina. My father was a general laborer, and he, along with my mother and their eight children, were sharecroppers. I am their sixth child, and I spent my formative years picking cotton and plowing with a mule. I gained a burst of insight when I was 15 years old from an internal consciousness that told him I could do better with his life. I heeded the inspiration and enrolled in college, graduating with honors. I earned a Master of Arts from The Ohio State University and a doctorate from Miami University (Ohio). I received a Golieb post-doctoral fellowship from the New York University School of Law, where I enrolled in the first-year curriculum and the Legal History Seminar. I began teaching at Wilberforce University in Ohio. I also taught at the University of Cincinnati and was a long-time constitutional history professor at North Carolina State University. I was the inaugural director of the African American Studies Program at Mississippi State University. I have lectured and presented scholarly papers in the United States, Canada, and Europe. I presented at the American Society of Legal History, the British Legal History Association, the Southern Historical Association, and the Association of African American Life and History. I have lectured at the University of Washington, Cambridge University, and Keele University in the United Kingdom. My scholarly endeavors have taken me to three African countries, including Ghana, where the University of Ghana boasts an African Studies program.
As a speaker and workshop facilitator, I presented “Four Elements of Progressive Constitutionalism” in the Amicus Curiae Lecture series at Marshall University (2012); “Abraham Lincoln and Executive War Powers,” Wilmington College (2013); “Reconstruction and the Politics of Expedience,” Old Capitol Museum in Jackson, MS (2015); and facilitated teachers at summer seminars for the National Endowment for the Humanities at Georgia State University in 2016 and 2018.
Now retired from academic work, I am the founder of The Possibility-Action Network and host of The Possibility-Action Network Podcast. I am a speaker, transformational coach, and social entrepreneur.
