Hasan Kwame Jeffries

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Hasan Kwame Jeffries (born January 13, 1973)[1] is a history professor and author at Ohio State University. He is the brother of Congressman Hakeem Jeffries, the U.S. House Minority Leader.[2] He is the nephew of Leonard Jeffries, a former political science professor at City College of New York.

Life

He was born in the Borough of

Black America Since MLK. He hosts a podcast called "Teaching Hard History" for the Southern Poverty Law Center's educational division, Teaching Tolerance.[3]

He was interviewed by NPR about how history is taught in American schools.[4] He has appeared on C-SPAN several times, including as an author and discussing current events and history.[5] In 2010 he lectured at Swarthmore College on the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC).[6]

He wrote a book about the struggle for Civil Rights in Lowndes County, Alabama.

Written work

  • Jeffries, Hasan Kwame (2009). Bloody Lowndes : civil rights and Black power in Alabama's Black Belt. New York.
    OCLC 276816664.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link
    )
  • Jeffries, Hasan Kwame (2019). Understanding and teaching the civil rights movement. Madison, Wisconsin.
    OCLC 1089883602.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link
    ), editor, a collection of essays by civil rights scholars and teachers

References

  1. ^ Jeffries, Hasan Kwame [@ProfJeffries] (January 13, 2023). "Today I turned half a hundred! ..." (Tweet). Retrieved October 8, 2023 – via Twitter.
  2. ^ "White power and antisemitism on college campuses". WOSU Public Media. November 22, 2022. Retrieved November 22, 2022.
  3. ^ "Hasan Kwame Jeffries". history.osu.edu.
  4. ^ "Historian Discusses The Politics That Shape U.S. History In Schools". NPR.org.
  5. ^ "Hasan Kwame Jeffries | C-SPAN.org". www.c-span.org.
  6. ^ "A Lecture by Hasan Kwame Jeffries". www.swarthmore.edu. July 8, 2014.

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