Steven F. Lawson Books
Black ballots
A thorough historical treatment of suffrage expansion in the South from World War II through the Johnson administration. Black Ballots is an in-depth look at suffrage expansion in the South from W...
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Civil rights crossroads
"The civil rights movement, observes historian Steven F. Lawson, was the intersection of two parallel tracks - federal initiative and grassroots activism. No other scholar of African American histo...
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Debating the civil rights movement, 1945-1968
"Decades after the most significant movement for social change in twentieth-century America, historians continue to debate the origins, impact, and legacy of the Black struggle for equality. This b...
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