Steven Fred Lawson (born June 14, 1945) is a noted historian of the

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in the United States. Born in the

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, 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. 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

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star and broadcaster

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List of works

Books

*(2012) (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) *(2003) Co-authors *(1998) Co-author *(1997) *(1985) *(1976)

Journals

* *"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. (November 9, 2008) "What It Meant: The Election of Barack Obama," ''The Boston Globe.'' *

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External links

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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 {{DEFAULTSORT:Lawson, Steven F. 21st-century American historians 21st-century American male writers 1945 births Living people Historians of the civil rights movement American male non-fiction writers