Harvard Sitkoff
Harvard Sitkoff (born 1945) 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 Muhammed 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 "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[]
- ^ Jump up to: a b "Harvard Sitkoff". OverDrive. Retrieved 30 January 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.
- ^ "Muhammad Ali dies at 74". 4 June 2016.
- ^ Jilani2016-01-18T15:41:48+00:00, Zaid JilaniZaid. "Martin Luther King Jr. Celebrations Overlook His Critiques of Capitalism and Militarism". The Intercept.
- ^ Winkler, Adam. "The Secret History of Guns".
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