Styron and his novel, The Confessions of Nat Turner, for his fictional portrayal of the African-American slave known for leading a rebellion in Virginia. Besides teaching at Hunter College and Cornell University, Clarke founded professional associations to support the study of black culture. He was a founder with Leonard Jeffries and first president of the African Heritage Studies Association, which supported scholars in areas of history, culture, literature, and the arts. He was a founding member of other organizations to support work in black culture: the Black Academy of Arts and Letters and the African-American Scholars' Council. Personal life Clarke's first marriage was to the mother of his daughter Lillie (who died before her father). They divorced. In 1961, Clarke married Eugenia Evans in New York, and together they had a son and daughter: Nzingha Marie and Sonni Kojo. The marriage ended in divorce. In 1997, John Henrik Clarke married his longtime companion, Sybil Williams. He died of a heart attack on July 16, 1998, at St. Luke's Hospital in New York City. He was buried in Green Acres Cemetery, Columbus, Georgia. Legacy and honors 1985 – Faculty of the Africana Studies and Research Center at Cornell University named the John Henrik Clarke Library after him. 1995 – Carter G. Woodson Medallion, Association for the Study of Afro-American Life and History. 2002 – Molefi Kete Asante listed Dr. John Henrik Clarke as one of his 100 Greatest African Americans. 2011 – Immortal Technique includes a short speech by Dr. Clarke on his album The Martyr. It is Track 13, which is entitled "The Conquerors". Selected bibliography Editor and contributor, William Styron's Nat Turner: Ten Black Writers Respond (1968) (other contributors are Lerone Bennett Jr., Alvin F. Poussaint, Vincent Harding, John Oliver Killens, John A. Williams, Ernest Kaiser, Loyle Hairston, Charles V. Hamilton, and Mike Thelwell.) Editor and contributor, with the assistance of Amy Jacques Garvey, Marcus Garvey and the Vision of Africa (1974) The Boy Who Painted Jesus Black (1975) Editor, Malcolm X: Man and His Times (1991), an anthology of the activist's writing Africans at the Crossroads: Notes for an African World Revolution Rebellion in Rhyme: The Early Poetry of John Henrik Clarke New Dimensions in African World History: The London Lectures of Dr. Yosef ben-Jochannan and Dr. John Henrik Clarke Christopher Columbus and the Afrikan Holocaust: Slavery and the Rise of European Capitalism African People in World History