Harvard Sitkoff (born 1941
) is an American historian.
Life
He lives in
Durham Durham most commonly refers to:
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*County Durham, an English county
*Durham County, North Carolina, a county in North Carolina, United States
*Durham, North Carolina, a city in No ...
,
New Hampshire
New Hampshire is a U.S. state, state in the New England region of the northeastern United States. It is bordered by Massachusetts to the south, Vermont to the west, Maine and the Gulf of Maine to the east, and the Canadian province of Quebec t ...
.
Career
He is a professor emeritus of history at the
University of New Hampshire
The University of New Hampshire (UNH) is a public land-grant research university with its main campus in Durham, New Hampshire. It was founded and incorporated in 1866 as a land grant college in Hanover in connection with Dartmouth College, mo ...
.
He contributed to the 1974 ''
Encyclopedia of American Biography
the ''Encyclopedia of American Biography'', a biographical encyclopedia, by John A. Garraty (ed.) and Jerome L. Sternstein (assoc. ed.) This encyclopedia, published by Harper & Row in 1974, "is more than a storehouse of information. It is als ...
'', most notably with an entry on
Muhammed Ali
Muhammad Ali (; born Cassius Marcellus Clay Jr.; January 17, 1942 – June 3, 2016) was an American professional boxer and activist. Nicknamed "The Greatest", he is regarded as one of the most significant sports figures of the 20th century, a ...
, and has also written on the politics of
Martin Luther King Jr.
Martin Luther King Jr. (born Michael King Jr.; January 15, 1929 – April 4, 1968) was an American Baptist minister and activist, one of the most prominent leaders in the civil rights movement from 1955 until his assassination in 1968 ...
Describing that period, Sitkoff has called the summer of 1967 "most intense and destructive wave of racial violence the nation had ever witnessed.."
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
External links
*
1945 births
Living people
21st-century American historians
21st-century American male writers
American male non-fiction writers
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