Willis, Eric B.: - Eric B. Willis, born in Detroit, Michigan, is an award-winning author, genealogist, historian of Black History, publisher, and instructor. Willis' books exist in over twenty major public and private collections throughout the United States, including the Library of Congress, Mississippi Department of Archives and History, Mississippi Civil Rights Museum, Harvard and Stanford Universities, Library of Michigan, Detroit Public Library (Main), New England Historic Genealogical Society, and the Bloomfield Hills (Michigan) Public School District.