en Steven F. Lawson

Steven F. Lawson
Steven F. Lawson
Born	June 14, 1945 (age 79); New York City, New York; United States
Academic background
Education	City College of New York (BA); Columbia University (MA, PhD)
Thesis	Give Us the Ballot: The Expansion of Black Voting Rights in the South, 1944-1969 (1974)
Doctoral advisor	William Leuchtenburg
Academic work
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 ;
Main interests	U.S. since 1945; Civil Rights Movement; African-American Politics; Political And Legal History
Notable works	Black Ballots (1976); ; In Pursuit of Power (1985); Running for Freedom (1991); Debating the Civil Rights Movement (1998);

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.^{[citation needed]} He had a sister, Lona Lawson Mirchin, who died in 2004.^{[citation needed]}

He earned his Ph.D. in history from Columbia University in 1974.^[2] 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).^{[citation needed]}

List of works

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. ISBN 978-0-8131-2287-8.
(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. 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 September 7, 2015.
Lawson, Steven F.; Hewitt, Nancy A. (June 6, 2011). "Letters to the Editor: United Against Aids (2 Letters)". The New York Times. Retrieved September 7, 2015.
Lawson, Steven F. (November 9, 2008). "The first – and last? – black president". The Boston Globe. p. 134.
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.
^ ^a ^b Motovidlak, Dave. "Lawson, Steven". Department of History | School of Arts and Sciences - Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey. Retrieved September 9, 2024.

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

[1] Danielle McGuire, ed. (2011). Freedom Rights: New Perspectives on the Civil Rights Movement. University Press of Kentucky. ISBN 9780813134499.

[:0-2] Motovidlak, Dave. "Lawson, Steven". Department of History | School of Arts and Sciences - Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey. Retrieved September 9, 2024.

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