Steven F. Lawson

Steven F. Lawson
Native name	Steven Fred Lawson
Born	(1945-06-14) June 14, 1945 New York City, New York United States
Residence	United States
Academic background
Alma mater	City College of New York (B.A. 1966) Columbia University (M.A. 1967) (Ph.D. 1974)
Thesis title	Give Us the Ballot : The Expansion of Black Voting Rights in the South, 1944-1969
Thesis year	1974
Doctoral advisor	William Leuchtenburg
Academic work
Era	20th century
Institutions	Rutgers University Professor Emeritus of History Past career University of Cambridge Duke University Visiting Adjunct Professor (Fall of 1995) University of North Carolina at Greensboro Professor and Head (1992-1998) University of South Florida Professor (1986) Asst. Professor (1978, 1974) Instructor (1972) City College of New York Adjunct Lecturer (1970) Kingsborough Community College
Main interests	U.S. since 1945 Civil Rights Movement African-American Politics Political And Legal History
Notable works	Black Ballots (1976) In Pursuit of Power (1985) Running for Freedom (1991) Debating the Civil Rights Movement (1998)

Steven Fred Lawson (born June 14, 1945) is a noted historian of the Civil Rights Movement in the United States. Born in the Bronx, 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 New York Yankees star and broadcaster Phil Rizzuto).

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.

External links

• Faculty page at Rutgers University
• 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