Full name Steven Fred Lawson Name Steven Lawson | Region United States Era 20th century | |
Institutions Rutgers UniversityProfessor Emeritus of HistoryPast careerUniversity of CambridgeDuke UniversityVisiting Adjunct Professor (Fall of 1995)University of North Carolina at GreensboroProfessor and Head (1992-1998)University of South FloridaProfessor (1986)Asst. Professor (1978, 1974)Instructor (1972)City College of New YorkAdjunct Lecturer (1970)Kingsborough Community College Thesis Give Us the Ballot : The Expansion of Black Voting Rights in the South, 1944-1969 (1974) Major works Black Ballots (1976)In Pursuit of Power (1985)Running for Freedom (1991)Debating the Civil Rights Movement (1998) Main interests African-American Civil Rights Movement, Politics Books Exploring American Histories, In Pursuit of Power: Southern, Debating Civil Rights & Debatin, Exploring American Histories, Exploring American Histories Similar People Nancy A Hewitt, Darlene Clark Hine, Edward Countryman, Frederick Hoxie, Kenneth S Greenberg | ||
Steven Fred Lawson (born June 14, 1945) is a noted historian of the Civil Rights Movement in the United States. Born in the Bronx, New York, he is the son of Ceil Parker Lawson, a housewife, and Murray Lawson, a retail hardware clerk. He had a sister, Lona Lawson Mirchin, who died in 2004. After teaching at various colleges and universities for forty years, he is now retired, works as an independent scholar, and shares a home in New Jersey with his wife Nancy A. Hewitt and their miniature poodle, Scooter (named after 1950s New York Yankees star and broadcaster Phil Rizzuto).
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