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Steven F. Lawson

{{short description|American historian}}

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| birth_place = New York City, New York
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| workplaces = Rutgers University
Professor Emeritus of History
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| 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

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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

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| thesis_year = 1974

| doctoral_advisor = William Leuchtenburg

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| main_interests = U.S. since 1945
Civil Rights Movement
African-American Politics
Political And Legal History

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| 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.{{cite book|editor=Danielle McGuire|title=Freedom Rights: New Perspectives on the Civil Rights Movement|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=PmK0Mp9VH7AC&q=Steven+F.+Lawson|year=2011|publisher=University Press of Kentucky|isbn=9780813134499}} He is an emeritus professor at Rutgers University–New Brunswick.{{Cite web |last=Motovidlak |first=Dave |title=Lawson, Steven |url=https://history.rutgers.edu/people/details/60-faculty-emeriti/170-lawson-steven |access-date=2024-09-09 |website=Department of History {{!}} School of Arts and Sciences - Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey |language=en-gb}}

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|date=January 2016}} He had a sister, Lona Lawson Mirchin, who died in 2004.{{citation needed|date=January 2016}}

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).{{citation needed|date=January 2016}}

List of works

=Books=

  • (2012) {{cite book|title=Exploring American Histories|publisher=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) {{cite book|title=Civil Rights Crossroads: Nation, Community, and the Black Freedom Struggle|date=2003 |url=https://archive.org/details/civilrightscross0000laws|url-access=registration|publisher=University Press of Kentucky|isbn=978-0-8131-2287-8 }}
  • (2003) Co-authors {{cite book|author1=Darlene Clark Hine|author-link1=Darlene Clark Hine|author2-link=Merline Pitre|author2=Merline Pitre|title=Black Victory: The Rise and Fall of the White Primary in Texas|publisher=University of Missouri Press}}
  • (1998) Co-author {{cite book|author=Charles Payne|author-link=Charles M. Payne|title=Debating the Civil Rights Movement, 1945-1968|publisher=Rowman- Littlefield|location=Lanham, Maryland}}
  • (1997) {{cite book|title=Running for Freedom: Civil Rights and Black Politics in America Since 1941|edition=Second|publisher=McGraw-Hill|location=New York}}
  • (1985) {{cite book|title=In Pursuit of Power: Southern Blacks and Electoral Politics, 1965–1982|url=https://archive.org/details/inpursuitofpower0000laws|url-access=registration|publisher=Columbia University Press|location=New York}}
  • (1976) {{cite book|title=Black Ballots: Voting Rights in the South, 1944-1969|edition=Reprint with new preface|publisher=Lexington Books|location=Lanham, Maryland}}

=Journals=

  • {{cite journal|title=Preserving the Second Reconstruction: Enforcement of the Voting Rights Act, 1965-1975|journal=Southern Studies|date=Spring 1983|volume=22|issue=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=

  • {{cite news|last1=Lawson|first1=Steven F.|title=The Opinion Pages: 'I Have a Dream,' Then and Now|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/29/opinion/i-have-a-dream-then-and-now.html?_r=0|access-date=7 September 2015|newspaper=The New York Times|date=August 28, 2013}}
  • {{cite news|last1=Lawson|first1=Steven F.|last2=Hewitt|first2=Nancy A.|title=Letters to the Editor: United Against Aids (2 Letters)|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/07/health/07letters-UNITEDAGAINS_LETTERS.html?gwh=507CBC4B94445C88D5ACE3CF61193472&gwt=pay|access-date=7 September 2015|newspaper=The New York Times|date=June 6, 2011}}
  • {{Cite news |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-boston-globe-the-first-and-last/149321009/ |last=Lawson |first=Steven F. |title=The first – and last? – black president |newspaper=The Boston Globe |page=134 |date=2008-11-09}}
  • {{cite news|last1=Lawson|first1=Steven F.|last2=Perez|first2=Louis A. Jr. |title=Oral History|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=EmFQAAAAIBAJ&pg=6689%2C3810905|work=St. Petersburg Independent|date=March 31, 1978|page=15A}}

References

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External links

  • [https://history.rutgers.edu/people/details/60-faculty-emeriti/170-lawson-steven Faculty page] at Rutgers University
  • [http://moritzlaw.osu.edu/electionlaw/litigation/documents/League1558.pdf 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

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