Donald Yacovone (born February 25, 1952) is an American researcher, writer and academic who primarily specializes in African American History."Donald Yacovone"
at Chicago Review Press. In 2013, he co-authored with

Henry Louis Gates Jr Henry Louis "Skip" Gates Jr. (born September 16, 1950) is an American literary critic, professor, historian, and filmmaker, who serves as the Alphonse Fletcher University Professor and Director of the Hutchins Center for African and African Am ...

the book based on the

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television series '' The African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross''.

Education

Born on February 25, 1952, in

Hartford, Connecticut Hartford is the capital city of the U.S. state of Connecticut. It was the seat of Hartford County until Connecticut disbanded county government in 1960. It is the core city in the Greater Hartford metropolitan area. Census estimates since the ...

, to Alfred F. and Mary E. (Ostrowska) Yacovone, Donald Yacovone earned his Bachelor of Science from

Southern Connecticut State University Southern Connecticut State University (Southern Connecticut, Southern Connecticut State, SCSU, or simply Southern) is a public university in New Haven, Connecticut. Part of the Connecticut State University System, it was founded in 1893 and is g ...

in 1974. He went on to earn a Master of Arts from

Trinity College Trinity College may refer to: Australia * Trinity Anglican College, an Anglican coeducational primary and secondary school in , New South Wales * Trinity Catholic College, Auburn, a coeducational school in the inner-western suburbs of Sydney, New ...

in Hartford, Connecticut, in 1977 and then earned his Doctor of Philosophy from

Claremont Graduate School The Claremont Graduate University (CGU) is a private, all-graduate research university in Claremont, California. Founded in 1925, CGU is a member of the Claremont Colleges which includes five undergraduate ( Pomona College, Claremont McKenna C ...

in 1984.

Career

In 2013, Yacovone co-authored '' The African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross'' with

, a book of the television series hosted by Gates Jr. The book has been criticized by some for not dating back to pre-slavery times. He is the research manager at the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute at and an associate at the

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, both at

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. Yacovone has written for ''

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'' on the topic of racism through history in textbooks and in academia.

Bibliography

*''Freedom's Journey: African American Voices of the Civil War'' (The Library of Black America series) – February 2004 *''Samuel Joseph May and the Dilemmas of the Liberal Persuasion, 1797-1871'' ''As Editor'' *''Wendell Phillips, Social Justice, and the Power of the Past'' - November, 2016"Wendell Phillips, Social Justice, and the Power of the Past"
LSU Press.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Yacovone, Donald 1952 births Living people Claremont Graduate University alumni Southern Connecticut State University alumni Trinity College (Connecticut) alumni 21st-century American historians 21st-century American male writers Historians of race relations Writers from Hartford, Connecticut Historians from California Historians from Connecticut American male non-fiction writers