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From Protest to Power: the Recent History of Civil Rights in the United States Part 4

Clayborne Carson is the author of In Struggle: SNCC and the Black Awakening of the 1960s (Harvard University Press) and, with David Garrow, the editor of Eyes on the Prize, America’s Civil Rights Years: A Reader and Guide (Penguin Books).

John Hope Franklin‘s most recent book is George Washington Williams: A Biography (University of Chicago Press).

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From Protest to Power: the Recent History of Civil Rights in the United States Part 3

Steven Lawson is the author of Black Ballots: Voting Rights in the South 1944-1969 and In Pursuit of Power: Southern Blacks & Electoral Politics 1965-1982 (Columbia University Press).

Robert J. Norrell is the author of Reaping the Whirlwind: The Civil Rights Movement in Tuskegee (Alfred E. Knopf).

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From Protest to Power: the Recent History of Civil Rights in the United States Part 2

Paula Giddens is the author of When and Where I Enter and In Search of Sisterhood (William Morrow & Company, Inc.m NY).

Mary King is the author of Freedom Song (paperback edition, 1988, William Morrow & Company, Inc., NY

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From Protest to Power: the Recent History of Civil Rights in the United States Part 1

William Chafe is the author of The Unfinished Journey: America Since World War II and Civilities and Civil Rights: Greensboro, North Carolina and the Black Struggle for Freedom (Oxford University Press).

From 1969-1975, Howard Lee was the first black mayor of a predominantly white southern town, Chapel Hill, NC, since the reconstruction. He served as Secretary of the Department of Natural Resources and Community Development under Governor James B. Hunt, Jr., of North Carolina.

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From Protest to Power

Steven Lawson is the author of a forthcoming book entitled From Protest to Power: Civil Rights and Black Politics Since 1945.

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