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Full name
  
Steven Fred Lawson

Name
  
Steven Lawson

Region
  
United States

Era
  
20th century



Born
  
June 14, 1945 (age 78) New York City, New York United States (
1945-06-14
)

Institutions
  
Rutgers University Professor Emeritus of History Past career University of Cambridge Duke University Visiting Adjunct Professor (Fall of 1995) University of North Carolina at Greensboro Professor and Head (1992-1998) University of South Florida Professor (1986) Asst. Professor (1978, 1974) Instructor (1972) City College of New York Adjunct 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)

Alma mater
  
City College of New York, Columbia University

Institution
  
Rutgers University, University of Cambridge

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

Doctoral advisor
  
William Leuchtenburg

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).

Contents

Books

  • (2012) Exploring American Histories. Bedford/St. Martin’s Press. (with Nancy A. Hewitt)
  • (2009) One America in the Twenty-first Century: The Report of President Bill Clinton’s Initiative on Race. New Haven, Yale University Press
  • (2004) To Secure These Rights: President Harry S Truman’s Committee on Civil Rights Boston: Bedford-St. Martin’s.
  • (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. 
  • "Freedom Then, Freedom Now: The Historiography of the Civil Rights Movement," American Historical Review, 96 (April 1991): 456- 71.
  • Race and Reapportionment, 1962: The Case of Georgia Senate Redistricting, Journal of Policy History, 12(Summer, 2000): 1-28(co-author with Peyton McCrary).

    • 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. (November 9, 2008) "What It Meant: The Election of Barack Obama," The Boston Globe.
  • Lawson, Steven F.; Perez, Louis A., Jr. (March 31, 1978). "Oral History". St. Petersburg Independent. p. 15A. 

    • References

    Steven F. Lawson Wikipedia
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