Elliott M. Rudwick was a professor of Sociology and History as well as an author in the United States. He wrote about

African American African Americans (also referred to as Black Americans and Afro-Americans) are an Race and ethnicity in the United States, ethnic group consisting of Americans with partial or total ancestry from sub-Saharan Africa. The term "African American ...

s and their history including

W. E. B. Du Bois William Edward Burghardt Du Bois ( ; February 23, 1868 – August 27, 1963) was an American-Ghanaian sociologist, socialist, historian, and Pan-Africanist civil rights activist. Born in Great Barrington, Massachusetts, Du Bois grew up in ...

. He corresponded with Du Bois. Rudwick worked with historian

August Meier August Meier (April 30, 1923 – March 19, 2003) was a professor of history at Kent State University and an author. He was a leading scholar on African American history. He edited several books with Elliott Rudwick. The New York Public Library has ...

on several books. He also wrote about the

East St. Louis massacre The East St. Louis massacre was a series of labor and race-related attacks by white Americans who murdered between 39 and 150 African Americans in late May and early July 1917. Another 6,000 black people were left homeless, and the burning ...

of 1917. He graduated from

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and received a master's degree and doctorate from the

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. Prior to joining the

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faculty in 1968, Rudwick had taught at

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, Florida State University and the

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. He was a

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. In 1967 he was interviewed about "Negro retaliatory violence".

Bibliography

*''The Niagara Movement'' (1957) *''Race Riot at East St. Louis; July 2, 1917'' (1964) *''W. E. B. Dubois; Propagandist of the Negro Protest'' *''Core : A Study in the Civil Rights Movement, 1942 - 1968'' with Meier *''From Plantation To Ghetto'' with August Meier *"Fifty Years of Race Relations in East St. Louis: The Breaking Down of White Supremacy" *"Race Leadership Struggle: Background of the Boston Riot of 1903, The Journal of Negro Education, Vol. 31, No. 1 (Winter, 1962), pages 16–24 *''The Making of Black America; Essays in Negro Life and History (two volumes), edited with August Meier *''Black Detroit and the Rise of the UAW'' with August Meier *''Along the Color Line, Explorations in the Black Experience'', edited with August Meier, University of Illinois Press, 1976

References

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