Harvard Sitkoff

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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

  1. ^ 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.
  2. ^ "Noted Civil Rights Scholar Authors Acclaimed Biography of MLK". www.newswise.com.
  3. ^ "Muhammad Ali dies at 74". 4 June 2016.
  4. ^ Jilani2016-01-18T15:41:48+00:00, Zaid JilaniZaid. "Martin Luther King Jr. Celebrations Overlook His Critiques of Capitalism and Militarism". The Intercept.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  5. ^ Winkler, Adam. "The Secret History of Guns".

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