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Dr. George Alexander Sewell (October 12, 1910 – September 26, 1983) was a teacher, professor, university administrator, pastor, historian, and author who worked in Florida, Georgia, and Mississippi in the United States. He served as the dean of Turner Theological Seminary at Morris Brown College in Georgia, and as the dean of social sciences at Alcorn State University in Mississippi. In addition to his work as a teacher and college administrator, he was simultaneously a pastor, serving throughout his life as a minister and elder in the African Methodist Episcopal Church. Dr. Sewell wrote newspaper columns for the Atlanta Daily World, and published two collections of sermons. In 1977, after retiring from Alcorn, he completed writing and published the still-in-print and highly regarded biographical dictionary Mississippi Black History Makers. He also wrote the major history of Morris Brown College, which was published shortly after his death in 1983.