Waldo E. Martin (born 19 April 1951) is an American historian.

Life

He received his BA degree from Duke University and his PhD from

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Career

He is currently the Alexander F. and May T. Morrison Professor of American History and Citizenship at the University of California in Berkeley.

Distinctions

He is a member of the Organization of American Historians.

Bibliography

Some of his books include the following: * ''Brown v. Board of Education: A Brief History with Documents '' * ''No Coward Soldiers: Black Cultural Politics in Postwar America '' * ''Mind of Frederick Douglass '' * ''Muller v. Oregon and Our Hearts Fell to the Ground and Era of Franklin D.: Roosevelt and Brown v. Board of Education '' * ''The World of Martin Luther King, 1929-1968 '' * ''Civil Rights In The United States '' * '' Black Against Empire: The History and Politics of the Black Panther Party'', co-authored with Joshua Bloom (2013)

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* African-American historians 21st-century American historians 21st-century American male writers Duke University alumni University of California, Berkeley alumni 1951 births Living people American male non-fiction writers 21st-century African-American writers 20th-century African-American people African-American male writers {{US-historian-stub