Gwendolen M. Carter

Who was Gwendolen M. Carter?

Gwendolen Margaret Carter was born in Hamilton, Ontario in 1906. She contracted polio at home as a child, losing the use of her legs for life despite therapy and the care of her physician father. Professor Carter was one of the founders of African Studies in the US, was past president of the US African Studies Association and was among the most widely known scholars of African affairs in the twentieth century. She was 84 years old when she died at her home in Orange City, Florida on February 20, 1991.