Leon Litwack
Historian, Author
1929 –
Who is Leon Litwack?
Leon F. Litwack is an American historian whose scholarship focuses on slavery, the Reconstruction Era of the United States, and its aftermath into the 20th century. He won a National Book Award, the Pulitzer Prize, and the Francis Parkman Prize for his 1979 book, Been In the Storm So Long: The Aftermath of Slavery. He also received a Guggenheim Fellowship.
After the Spring 2007 semester, he retired to emeritus status at the University of California Berkeley, where he received the Golden Apple Award for Outstanding Teaching that year. Then he went on a lecture tour that led to his latest book, How Free Is Free?: The Long Death of Jim Crow.
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- Born
- Dec 2, 1929
Santa Barbara - Also known as
- Leon F. Litwack
- Leon F. Litwak
- Leon Frank Litwack
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Profession
- Education
- PhD, University of California, Berkeley
( - 1958) - Bachelor of Arts, University of California, Berkeley
( - 1951)
- PhD, University of California, Berkeley
- Employment
- University of California, Berkeley
- Lived in
- California
(1964 - )
- California
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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