Steven Fred Lawson (born June 14, 1945) is an American historian of the Civil Rights Movement in the United States. He is an emeritus professor at Rutgers University–New Brunswick.
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. He had a sister, Lona Lawson Mirchin, who died in 2004.
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).
List of works
Books
- (2012) Exploring American Histories. 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) Civil Rights Crossroads: Nation, Community, and the Black Freedom Struggle. University Press of Kentucky. 2003. ISBN 978-0-8131-2287-8.
- (2003) Co-authors Darlene Clark Hine; Merline Pitre. Black Victory: The Rise and Fall of the White Primary in Texas. University of Missouri Press.
- (1998) Co-author Charles Payne. Debating the Civil Rights Movement, 1945-1968. Lanham, Maryland: Rowman- Littlefield.
- (1997) Running for Freedom: Civil Rights and Black Politics in America Since 1941 (Second ed.). New York: McGraw-Hill.
- (1985) In Pursuit of Power: Southern Blacks and Electoral Politics, 1965–1982. New York: Columbia University Press.
- (1976) Black Ballots: Voting Rights in the South, 1944-1969 (Reprint with new preface ed.). Lanham, Maryland: Lexington Books.
Journals
- "Preserving the Second Reconstruction: Enforcement of the Voting Rights Act, 1965-1975". Southern Studies. 22 (1). Spring 1983.
- "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
- Lawson, Steven F. (August 28, 2013). "The Opinion Pages: 'I Have a Dream,' Then and Now". The New York Times. Retrieved September 7, 2015.
- Lawson, Steven F.; Hewitt, Nancy A. (June 6, 2011). "Letters to the Editor: United Against Aids (2 Letters)". The New York Times. Retrieved September 7, 2015.
- Lawson, Steven F. (November 9, 2008). "The first – and last? – black president". The Boston Globe. p. 134.
- Lawson, Steven F.; Perez, Louis A. Jr. (March 31, 1978). "Oral History". St. Petersburg Independent. p. 15A.
References
External links
- Faculty page at Rutgers University
- 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
