Horace Huntley is a retired professor from the University of Alabama, Birmingham (UAB) in the School of Social and Behavioral Sciences.
He also authored A Master Option Trader's Journey From Pipe Shop To Wall Street – The Life and Times of Terry Harris in 2005, which tells the story of a young black man, born in Bessemer, Alabama who teaches himself the art of option trading on Wall Street and then develops a system to teach other poor people the same.
In 2006, he co-authored Nerve Juice And The Ivory Tower – Confrontation in Minnesota – The True Story Of The Morrill Hall Takeover which tells the story of a black student's quest at the University of Minnesota for a Black Studies Department.
The co-authors are Marie Braddock Williams and Rose Freeman Massey who were part of a small group of black students occupied the University of Minnesota's administration building demanding African American Studies, open admissions and increased financial and academic resources for black and non-white students.
He also claims, in the lawsuit filed in federal court Tuesday, that UAB "has a policy of discriminating against black persons with respect to recruitment, hiring, compensation, promotions, discipline, training, discharge, pay, fringe benefits and other terms and conditions of employment.