Dickson D. Bruce Jr.
Dickson "Dave" Davies Bruce Jr. (April 11, 1946 – November 24, 2014) was a history professor and author in the United States whose research focused on cultural and intellectual history of African Americans. He taught at the University of California at Irvine. He received the James Mooney Award from the Southern Anthropological Society in 1973 for his book ''And They All Sang Hallelujah''. Bruce was born in Dallas and raised in Lubbock, Texas. He received a bachelor's degree in from UT Austin in 1967 and a doctorate from University of Pennsylvania in 1971. He joined the faculty at UC Irvine in the same year and taught there for more than 35 years before retiring in 2008 as Professor of History. During his career, he served as Associate Dean of Graduate Studies, and Director of the Program in Comparative Cultures. Select writings *''And They All Sang Hallelujah: Plain-Folk Camp-Meeting Religion, 1800-1845'' (1974) *''The "John and Old Master" Stories and the World of Slavery: A St ...
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Dallas
Dallas () is the List of municipalities in Texas, third largest city in Texas and the largest city in the Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex, the List of metropolitan statistical areas, fourth-largest metropolitan area in the United States at 7.5 million people. It is the largest city in and County seat, seat of Dallas County, Texas, Dallas County with portions extending into Collin County, Texas, Collin, Denton County, Texas, Denton, Kaufman County, Texas, Kaufman and Rockwall County, Texas, Rockwall counties. With a 2020 United States census, 2020 census population of 1,304,379, it is the List of United States cities by population, ninth most-populous city in the U.S. and the List of cities in Texas by population, third-largest in Texas after Houston and San Antonio. Located in the North Texas region, the city of Dallas is the main core of the largest metropolitan area in the Southern United States and the largest inland metropolitan area in the U.S. that lacks any navigable link ...
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