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WILLIAM HARRISON PIPES joined the Michigan State faculty in 1957, teaching speech and literature. The first African American in the United States to earn a PhD in speech and the first to be granted full professorship at MSU, Pipes’s academic career included serving as president of Alcorn State University and academic dean of Philander Smith College. He remained at MSU until his retirement in 1975.

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WILLIAM HARRISON PIPES joined the Michigan State faculty in 1957, teaching speech and literature. The first African American in the United States to earn a PhD in speech and the first to be granted full professorship at MSU, Pipes’s academic career included serving as president of Alcorn State University and academic dean of Philander Smith College. He remained at MSU until his retirement in 1975.

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