Leon F. Litwack - "Fight the Power"

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Leon F. Litwack taught at the University of California at Berkeley from 1964 until his retirement in May 2007. He is the Alexander F. and May T. Morrison Professor of History Emeritus. He has also taught at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, and as a visitor at the University of Mississippi (the Ford Foundation Professor of Southern Studies), the University of South Carolina, Louisiana State University, Moscow State University (Fulbright professor of American history)), Beijing University, the University of Helsinki, and the University of Sydney). He received his B.A (1951), M.A. (1952), and Ph.D. (1958) from the University of California, Berkeley, and served in the U.S. Army from 1953 to 1955. Among his books are The American Labor Movement (ed., 1962); North of Slavery: The Negro in the Free States, 1790-1860 (1961); Black Leaders of the Nineteenth Century (ed. with August Meier, 1988); Been in the Storm So Long: The Aftermath of Slavery (1980), which won the Pulitzer Prize and the American Book Award; and Trouble in Mind: Black Southerners in the Age of Jim Crow (1998). He contributed an essay to The Antislavery Vanguard (1965); Anonymous Americans (1971); Ethnic Notions: Black Images in the White Mind (1980); Advancing Art: Painting, Politics, and Cultural Confrontation at Mid-Century (1989); Past Perfect: History According to the Movies (1995); Ken Burns's Civil War (1995); Historians and Race: Autobiography and the Writing of History (1996); Without Sanctuary: Lynching Photography in America (2000); a new edition of Jean Toomer's Cane (2000); and Camera Man's Journey: Julian Dimock's South (2002), among other works, and is a General Editor of The Harvard Guide to African American History (2001). He has produced a film, To Look for America: From Hiroshima to Woodstock (1971), and collaborated in producing a record, "Jailhouse Blues: Women's A Cappella Songs from the Parchman Penitentiary" (Rosetta Records, 1987). He has been the recipient of three Distinguished Teaching Awards at Berkeley. In 1986-87 he was President of the Organization of American Historians, in 1987 he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and in 2008 he is president of the Southern Historical Association.

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[ns0710]

Best Professor at Cal. Hands down. Go Litwack! His voice is definitely missed on campus.

[guschiggins3]

this mans narrative gives me the shivers

[Lietuvai]

Lithuania no for immigrants.