Adam Fairclough (born 1952) is a British (English) historian of the

United States The United States of America (U.S.A. or USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S. or US) or America, is a country primarily located in North America. It consists of 50 states, a federal district, five major unincorporated territori ...

. He is the Raymond and Beverly Sackler Professor of American History at the

University of Leiden Leiden University (abbreviated as ''LEI''; nl, Universiteit Leiden) is a public research university in Leiden, Netherlands. The university was founded as a Protestant university in 1575 by William, Prince of Orange, as a reward to the city of Le ...

in the

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. Between 2008 and 2014, he served as the chair of the Netherlands American Studies Association. He has written on a number of subjects, and specializes in the

Civil Rights Movement The civil rights movement was a nonviolent social and political movement and campaign from 1954 to 1968 in the United States to abolish legalized institutional racial segregation, discrimination, and disenfranchisement throughout the Unite ...

and the period of

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. His best known work is ''To Redeem the Soul of America: The Southern Christian Leadership Conference and Martin Luther King, Jr.'' Fairclough is a qualified expert in the field of American History, but specializes in the Civil Rights Movement.

Partial bibliography

*''To Redeem the Soul of America: The Southern Christian Leadership Conference and Martin Luther King, Jr.'' (1987) *''Race & Democracy: The Civil Rights Struggle in Louisiana, 1915-1972'',

University of Georgia , mottoeng = "To teach, to serve, and to inquire into the nature of things.""To serve" was later added to the motto without changing the seal; the Latin motto directly translates as "To teach and to inquire into the nature of things." , establ ...

Press (

Lillian Smith Book Award Jointly presented by the Southern Regional Council and the University of Georgia Libraries, the ''Lillian Smith Book Awards honor those authors who, through their outstanding writing about the American South, carry on Lillian Smith's legacy of elu ...

winner, 1995) *''Better Day Coming: Blacks and Equality, 1890-2000'',

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(2001) *''A Class of Their Own: Black Teachers in the Segregated South'' (2006)

References

1952 births Historians of the United States Living people Historians of the civil rights movement {{civil-rights-movement-stub