Margaret Peters was a nationally acclaimed historian who died on Friday, April 1, 2022.
Her parents were Mary Margaret Smith Peters and Joseph Andrew Peters.
Margaret Peters was born on March 12, 1936. Peters taught at the Dayton Public Schools for many years until retiring in 1993.
She was the author of a number of books, including The Ebony Book of Black Achievement and Dayton’s African-American Heritage.
Peters has won several accolades, including the Nationwide Council of Negro Women’s Excellence in Teaching Award for the Midwest Region in 1991.
Beginning in 1984, Peters was president of the Association for the Study of African-American Life.
She was included in The HistoryMakers, a national oral history project, in 2006.
She was 86 years old at the time she passed.
Margaret Peters obituary: How did Margaret Peters die?
She passed quietly in her sleep or of natural causes.
She spent her whole life in the Dayton region.
Peters’ funeral or memorial arrangements are yet to be announced.
