Harvard Sitkoff
Harvard Sitkoff (born 1941 ) is an American historian.
Life
He lives in Durham, New Hampshire.[1]
Career
He is a professor emeritus of history at the University of New Hampshire.[1][2] He contributed to the 1974 Encyclopedia of American Biography, most notably with an entry on Muhammad Ali,[3] and has also written on the politics of Martin Luther King Jr.[4] Describing that period, Sitkoff has called the summer of 1967 the "most intense and destructive wave of racial violence the nation had ever witnessed".[5]
Partial Bibliography
- The Struggle for Black Equality: 1954-1992
- King: Pilgrimage to the Mountaintop
- A New Deal for Blacks: The Emergence of Civil Rights as a National Issue: The Depression Decade
- The Struggle for Black Equality
- Perspectives on Modern America: Making Sense of the Twentieth Century
- Fifty Years Later: New Deal Evaluated
- Toward Freedom Land: The Long Struggle for Racial Equality in America
References
- ^ a b "Harvard Sitkoff". OverDrive. Retrieved January 30, 2017.
Harvard Sitkoff, professor emeritus of history at the University of New Hampshire [...] He lives in Durham, New Hampshire.
- ^ "Noted Civil Rights Scholar Authors Acclaimed Biography of MLK". www.newswise.com. January 10, 2008.
- ^ Cohen, David (June 4, 2016). "Muhammad Ali dies at 74". Politico.
- ^ Jilani, Zaid (January 18, 2016). "Martin Luther King Jr. Celebrations Overlook His Critiques of Capitalism and Militarism". The Intercept.
- ^ Winkler, Adam (September 2011). "The Secret History of Guns". The Atlantic.
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