Steven F. Lawson Explained
| Birth Date: | 1945 6, mf=yes |
| Birth Place: | New York City, New York
United States |
| Workplaces: | Rutgers University
Professor Emeritus of History
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| Education: | City College of New York (BA)
Columbia University (MA, PhD) |
| Thesis Title: | Give Us the Ballot: The Expansion of Black Voting Rights in the South, 1944-1969 |
| Thesis Year: | 1974 |
| Doctoral Advisor: | William Leuchtenburg |
| Main Interests: | U.S. since 1945
Civil Rights Movement
African-American Politics
Political And Legal History |
| Major Works: | - Black Ballots (1976)
- In Pursuit of Power (1985)
- Running for Freedom (1991)
- Debating the Civil Rights Movement (1998)
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Steven Fred Lawson (born June 14, 1945) is an American historian of the Civil Rights Movement in the United States.[1] He is an emeritus professor at Rutgers University–New Brunswick.[2]
Life and career
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.
He earned his Ph.D. in history from Columbia University in 1974. 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).
List of works
Books
- (2012) Book: 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) Book: Civil Rights Crossroads: Nation, Community, and the Black Freedom Struggle. 2003 . registration. University Press of Kentucky. 978-0-8131-2287-8 .
- (2003) Co-authors Book: Darlene Clark Hine. Darlene Clark Hine. Merline Pitre. Merline Pitre. Black Victory: The Rise and Fall of the White Primary in Texas. University of Missouri Press.
- (1998) Co-author Book: Charles Payne. Charles M. Payne. Debating the Civil Rights Movement, 1945-1968. Rowman- Littlefield. Lanham, Maryland.
- (1997) Book: Running for Freedom: Civil Rights and Black Politics in America Since 1941. Second. McGraw-Hill. New York.
- (1985) Book: In Pursuit of Power: Southern Blacks and Electoral Politics, 1965–1982. registration. Columbia University Press. New York.
- (1976) Book: Black Ballots: Voting Rights in the South, 1944-1969. Reprint with new preface. Lexington Books. Lanham, Maryland.
Journals
- Preserving the Second Reconstruction: Enforcement of the Voting Rights Act, 1965-1975. Southern Studies. Spring 1983. 22. 1.
- "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
External links
Notes and References
- Book: Danielle McGuire. Freedom Rights: New Perspectives on the Civil Rights Movement. 2011. University Press of Kentucky. 9780813134499.
- Web site: Motovidlak . Dave . Lawson, Steven . 2024-09-09 . Department of History School of Arts and Sciences - Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey . en-gb.
