Margo Lee Williams

Margo Lee Williams is currently the Deputy Registrar for SDUSMP and a former editor of the Journal of the Afro-American Historical and Genealogical Society. She has researched and written extensively on her Lassiter family of Randolph County, North Carolina. Her first book, published in 2011, “Miles Lassiter (circa 1777-1850) An Early African American Quaker from Lassiter Mill, Randolph County, North Carolina: My Research Journey to Home (Backintyme Publishing),” tells the story of both her personal and research journeys that led to the discovery of her fourth great grandfather, Miles Lassiter. Her second book, published in 2016, “From Hill Town to Strieby: Education and the American Missionary Association in the Uwharrie ‘Back Country’ of Randolph County, North Carolina (Backintyme Publishing),” is a social history that follows the development of the school and church, founded in 1880 by a formerly enslaved, 19th century poet, teacher and missionary, the Rev. Islay Walden. Her third book, due out this Spring, is a biography of the Rev. Islay Walden.