Steven Fred Lawson (born June 14, 1945) is an American historian of the Civil Rights Movement in the United States.[1]
Steven F. Lawson | |
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Education | City College of New York (BA) Columbia University (MA, PhD) |
Thesis | Give Us the Ballot: The Expansion of Black Voting Rights in the South, 1944-1969 (1974) |
Doctoral advisor | William Leuchtenburg |
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Institutions | Rutgers University Professor Emeritus of History Past career
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Main interests | U.S. since 1945 Civil Rights Movement African-American Politics Political And Legal History |
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Born in the Bronx, New York, he is the son of Ceil Parker Lawson, a housewife, and Murray Lawson, a retail hardware clerk.[citation needed] He had a sister, Lona Lawson Mirchin, who died in 2004.[citation needed] 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 New York Yankees star and broadcaster Phil Rizzuto).[citation needed]