Full Name
Frederick Williams
Job Title
Screenwriter
Company
Heroes of Black Wall Street
Speaker Bio
Mr. Frederick Williams, Executive Literary Editor for Pairee Publications LLC, completed all course work for a PhD from Indiana University. After completing the course work, he received a political appointment to the staff of Senator Birch Bayh (Democrat, Indiana). In this capacity as Legislative Aide, he assisted in conducting the first Senate hearing in the US Congress designating Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s birthday a national holiday. That hearing ultimately led to the passage of the legislation creating the Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. National Holiday. Mr. Williams also worked as a Special Assistant to Congressman Parren J. Mitchell, (Democrat, Baltimore, Md.) and former Chair, House Small Business Committee and two-time Chair, Congressional Black Caucus.
Mr. Williams is one of the original founders of the Black Studies Minor at University of Texas at San Antonio, where he taught courses to include: Novels of the Harlem Renaissance, African American Literature from Phyllis Wheatley to the Black Arts Movement. He also taught a course on African American Political Thought, African American Politics, and Politics of the Civil Rights Movement. Mr. Williams has also conducted several workshops and seminars titled, “The Perception of Blacks in Literature.”
For five years, Mr. Williams taught creative writing courses at the Zora Neale Hurston Festival of the Arts and Humanities in Eatonville, Florida. For eight years, at Dr. Rosie Milligan’s Black Writers on Tour in Los Angeles, California. He taught a creative writing course at University of Texas at San Antonio and conducted creative writing seminars in Austin, Texas; Dallas, Texas; Atlanta, Georgia; Detroit, Michigan, and San Antonio, Texas. He worked closely with BernNadette Stanis as content editor of her autobiographical account, The Last Night, as caregiver for her mother who had the dreaded Alzheimer’s disease.
Mr. Williams published his first novel, The Nomination, in 2001, followed by Beyond Redemption in 2004 and Just Loving You in 2008. His first historical novel, Fires of Greenwood: Tulsa Riot of 1921, was published in 2014. He completed his second historical novel titled, Bayard and Martin: A Historical Novel About a Friendship and the Civil Rights Movement, released in 2019.
Mr. Williams has ghost written three autobiographies, and has edited two anthologies, Black is the Color of Strength and Black Is the Color of Love. He also wrote the screen play, Heroes of Black Wall Street.
Mr. Williams is one of the original founders of the Black Studies Minor at University of Texas at San Antonio, where he taught courses to include: Novels of the Harlem Renaissance, African American Literature from Phyllis Wheatley to the Black Arts Movement. He also taught a course on African American Political Thought, African American Politics, and Politics of the Civil Rights Movement. Mr. Williams has also conducted several workshops and seminars titled, “The Perception of Blacks in Literature.”
For five years, Mr. Williams taught creative writing courses at the Zora Neale Hurston Festival of the Arts and Humanities in Eatonville, Florida. For eight years, at Dr. Rosie Milligan’s Black Writers on Tour in Los Angeles, California. He taught a creative writing course at University of Texas at San Antonio and conducted creative writing seminars in Austin, Texas; Dallas, Texas; Atlanta, Georgia; Detroit, Michigan, and San Antonio, Texas. He worked closely with BernNadette Stanis as content editor of her autobiographical account, The Last Night, as caregiver for her mother who had the dreaded Alzheimer’s disease.
Mr. Williams published his first novel, The Nomination, in 2001, followed by Beyond Redemption in 2004 and Just Loving You in 2008. His first historical novel, Fires of Greenwood: Tulsa Riot of 1921, was published in 2014. He completed his second historical novel titled, Bayard and Martin: A Historical Novel About a Friendship and the Civil Rights Movement, released in 2019.
Mr. Williams has ghost written three autobiographies, and has edited two anthologies, Black is the Color of Strength and Black Is the Color of Love. He also wrote the screen play, Heroes of Black Wall Street.
