Full name | Steven Fred Lawson |
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Born | New York City, New York United States |
June 14, 1945
Era | 20th century |
Region | United States |
Institutions | Rutgers University Professor Emeritus of History Past career
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Alma mater | City College of New York (B.A. 1966) Columbia University (M.A. 1967) (Ph.D. 1974) |
Thesis | Give Us the Ballot : The Expansion of Black Voting Rights in the South, 1944-1969 (1974) |
Doctoral advisor | William Leuchtenburg |
Main interests
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U.S. since 1945 Civil Rights Movement African-American Politics Political And Legal History |
Major works
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Steven Fred Lawson (born June 14, 1945) is a noted historian of the Civil Rights Movement in the United States.[1]
List of works
Books
- (2012) Exploring American Histories. Bedford/St. Martin’s Press.
- (2003) Civil Rights Crossroads: Nation, Community, and the Black Freedom Struggle. University Press of Kentucky.
- (2003) Co-authors Darlene Clark Hine; Merline Pitre. Black Victory: The Rise and Fall of the White Primary in Texas. University of Missouri Press.
- (1998) Co-author Charles Payne. Debating the Civil Rights Movement, 1945-1968. Lanham, Maryland: Rowman- Littlefield.
- (1997) Running for Freedom: Civil Rights and Black Politics in America Since 1941 (Second ed.). New York: McGraw-Hill.
- (1985) In Pursuit of Power: Southern Blacks and Electoral Politics, 1965–1982. New York: Columbia University Press.
- (1976) Black Ballots: Voting Rights in the South, 1944-1969 (Reprint with new preface ed.). Lanham, Maryland: Lexington Books.
Journals
- "Preserving the Second Reconstruction: Enforcement of the Voting Rights Act, 1965-1975". Southern Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal of the South 22 (1). Spring 1983.
Newspapers
- Lawson, Steven F. (August 28, 2013). "The Opinion Pages: ‘I Have a Dream,’ Then and Now". The New York Times. Retrieved 7 September 2015.
- Lawson, Steven F.; Hewitt, Nancy A. (June 6, 2011). "Letters to the Editor: United Against Aids (2 Letters)". The New York Times. Retrieved 7 September 2015.
- Lawson, Steven F.; Perez, Louis A., Jr. (March 31, 1978). "Oral History". St. Petersburg Independent. p. 15A.
References
- ^ Danielle McGuire, ed. (2011). Freedom Rights: New Perspectives on the Civil Rights Movement. University Press of Kentucky. ISBN 9780813134499.
External links
- Faculty page at Rutgers University
- Declaration of Steven F. Lawson, Ph.D. Case No.: 1:13-CV-861 From the case United States of America vs. The State Of North Carolina; The North Carolina State Board of Elections; and Kim W. Strach held in the United States District Court for the Middle District of North Carolina
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