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James Daughtridge was born on March 7, 1950, at Memorial Hospital in Edgecombe County in Rocky Mount, North Carolina. He graduated from O. R. Pope Elementary School in Rocky Mount in 1962. From there, he attended J. W. Parker Junior High School from 1962 to 1965. He graduated from the Booker T. Washington Senior High School there in 1968. While at Booker T., he received a second place award in a Time magazine current events contest. He received a partial academic scholarship when he attended Johnson C. Smith University, located in Charlotte, North Carolina. From there, he graduated cum laude and was ranked twelfth in his class of 228 graduates. He played tennis while in college and participated in a number of extracurricular activities. While at Smith, he served as treasurer, vice president, and president of the Student Government Association. He was selected to Who's Who Among Students in American Universities and Colleges during his sophomore, junior, and senior years. While at Smith, he was offered to have his total college cost supplemented through a tennis scholarship, but he declined. In later life, he attended and received a master of arts degree from Cleveland State University in 1979. He studied for a doctoral degree in history at Howard University in Washington, DC, from 1979 to 1982. He has been an adjunct professor at seven colleges, and he has taught in eight different areas of history (e.g., American history to and from the Civil War, African-American history to and from the Civil War, modern Western civilization, modern world history, twentieth-century world history, and twentieth-century American history). For several years, he has been a docent, or museum tour guide, with the Smithsonian Institution, located in Washington, DC. In life, he has held numerous jobs, but he has attained his greatest satisfaction as the employment discrimination complaints appeals manager for the US Department of Agriculture, which is the position in which he currently serves. He has travelled to three continents, and he has visited twenty-six states. His ambition in life is to have travelled to all fifty states. He has several hobbies and interests-which include vegetable gardening, hand dancing, tennis, travelling, billiards, photography, bowling, and reading.
