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William Henry Huff photograph [William Henry Huff Gerald F. Ladner's great grandfather] Pharmacist, lawyer, real estate broker, insurance broker, poet, novelist William Henry Huff attended Georgia Normal and Industrial Institute and Knox Institute in Athens, Georgia. His pharmacy training was at National Medical University in Chicago. He attended both the Chicago Law School where he obtained an LL.B., and John Marshall Law School, where he obtained his J.D. degree. Huff was admitted to the Indiana Bar in 1936 and the Illinois Bar in 1946. He was also admitted to practice before the U.S. Supreme Court and practiced pharmacy. [Source: M. Marie Booth Foster, Southern Black Creative Writers, 1829-1953: Biobiliographies 39 (New York: Greenwood Press, 1988)] William H. Huff—Pharmacist, Lawyer, Poet - Paramount Songwriter! Poetry William Henry Huff, Sowing and Reaping, and Other Poems (Prairie Cite, Ill.: Decker Press, 1949)(Avon, Illinois: Hamlet Press, 1950) _______________, From Deep Within: Poems (Chicago: Dierkes Press, 1951) _______________, I'm Glad I'm Who I Am: From a Plow to a Palace (Stony Creek, Virginia: Millennium Press, 1960) [Low Ground of Sorrow, a title listed in M. Marie Booth Foster, Southern Black Creative Writers, 1829-1953: Biobliographies 39 (New York: Greenwood Press, 1988) has no OCLC lisiting.] Music William Henry Huff, Wave On, Old Glory, Wave On (Chicago: W.H. Huff, 1943)(Song for solo voice with piano accompaniment) _______________, War Mother's Song (Chicago: W.H. Huff, 1943)(Song for solo voice with piano accompaniment) _______________, Did'nt [sic] Our Hearts Burn Within (Chicago: H & H Music Co., 1948)(Song for solo voice with piano accompaniment) _______________, Yes, I Know You Gonna Talk About Me (Chicago: H & H Music Co., 1948)(Song for solo voice with piano accompaniment) _______________, Sinners Do Not Let This Harvest Pass (Chicago: H & H Music Co., 1949)(Song for solo voice with piano accompaniment) ______________, I Have a Noble Work to Do (Chicago: H & H Music Co., 1949)(Song for solo voice with piano accompaniment) ______________ , Who Built the Ark? (Chicago: H & H Music Co., 1951)(Song for solo voice with piano accompaniment) Biographical References Mary Mace Spradling (ed.), In Black and White: A Guide to Magazine Articles, Newspaper Articles, and Books Concerning Black Individuals and Groups (Detroit: Gale Research, 3rd ed., 1980)(2 vols.) Theressa Gunnels Rush, Carol Fairbanks Myers & Esther Spring Arata, Black American Writers Past and Present: A Biographical and Bibliographical Dictionary (Metuchen, New Jersey: Scarecrow Press, 1975)(2 vols.) Research Resources William Henry Huff Papers |
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