August Meier (April 30, 1923 – March 19, 2003) was a professor of history at

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and an author. He was a leading scholar on African American history. He edited several books with Elliott Rudwick. The

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has a collection of his papers. Raised in

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, Meier graduated from

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. He graduated from

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and received an M.A. in 1947 and PhD in 1957 from

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, where he studied under Henry Steele Commager and published his dissertation, ''Foundational Negro Thought in America: 1880–1915'' (1963).

Writings

*''Foundational Negro Thought in America: 1880–1915'' (1963) *''From Plantation to Ghetto; An Interpretive History of American Negroes'', co-author (1970) *''The Making of Black America: The black community in modern America'' (1971) *''CORE, a Study in the Civil Rights Movement, 1942-1968'' (1975) *''Negro Thought in America, 1880-1915; Racial Ideologies in the Age of Booker T. Washington'' (1988) *''Black history and the historical profession, 1915-1980'', co-author (1986) *''Time of Trial, Time of Hope; The Negro in America, 1919-1941'', co-author (1986) *''Black Leaders in the Nineteenth Century'', co-author (1988) *''Black Leaders in the Twentieth Century'', co-author (1988) *''A White Scholar and the Black Community, 1945-1965; Essays and Reflections'' (1992), a collection of his writings *''Along the Color Line; Explorations in the Black Experience'', co-author Elliott M. Rudwick (2002) *''Black Detroit and the Rise of the UAW'', co-author (2007)

Articles

*"On the role of Martin Luther King" (1965)

References

1923 births 2003 deaths American writers Barringer High School alumni Columbia University alumni Historians from New Jersey Kent State University faculty Oberlin College alumni Writers from Newark, New Jersey {{US-historian-stub