Ric Murphy

Ric Murphy is an educator, historian, lecturer, and award winning author and documentarian. He explores the roles and rich contributions made by African Americans in United States history. His award-winning book, the Arrival of the First Africans in Virginia was turned into a documentary with the same name and has won over thirty international film festival awards, including being selected as Best Director. His documented family lineage dates to the earliest colonial periods of Plymouth, Massachusetts, and of Jamestown, Virginia.

Mr. Murphy’s family lineage has been evaluated and accepted by several heredity societies, including but not limited to the General Society of the Sons of the Revolution; the Daughters of the American Revolution (through is mother); the National Society of the Sons of Colonial New England; the Sons of the American Revolution; the Sons of the Union Veterans of the Civil War; the Sons and Daughters of the U. S. Middle Passage; and the Society of the First African Families of English America.

Mr. Murphy was a Resident Fellow at Harvard University, Kennedy School of Government; and he has a Masters in Urban Affairs from Boston University, and a Bachelor of Science Degree from the University of Massachusetts.