Steven Fred Lawson (born June 14, 1945) is an American historian of the Civil Rights Movement in the United States. He is an emeritus professor at Rutgers University–New Brunswick.

Life and career

Born in the

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, New York, he is the son of Ceil Parker Lawson, a housewife, and Murray Lawson, a retail hardware clerk. He had a sister, Lona Lawson Mirchin, who died in 2004. He earned his Ph.D. in history from Columbia University in 1974. After teaching at various colleges and universities for forty years, he is now retired, works as an independent scholar, and shares a home in New Jersey with his wife Nancy A. Hewitt and their miniature poodle, Scooter (named after 1950s

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star and broadcaster Phil Rizzuto).

List of works

Books

*(2012) (with Nancy A. Hewitt) *(2009) ''One America in the Twenty-first Century: The Report of President Bill Clinton’s Initiative on Race.'' New Haven, Yale University Press *''(2004) To Secure These Rights: President Harry S Truman’s Committee on Civil Rights Boston'': Bedford-St. Martin’s. *(2003) *(2003) Co-authors *(1998) Co-author *(1997) *(1985) *(1976)

Journals

* *"Freedom Then, Freedom Now: The Historiography of the Civil Rights Movement," ''American Historical Review'', 96 (April 1991): 456- 71. *Race and Reapportionment, 1962: The Case of Georgia Senate Redistricting, ''Journal of Policy History'', 12(Summer, 2000): 1-28(co-author with Peyton McCrary).

Newspapers

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References

External links

Faculty page
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Declaration of Steven F. Lawson, Ph.D. Case No.: 1:13-CV-861
From the case ''United States of America vs. The State Of North Carolina; The North Carolina State Board of Elections; and Kim W. Strach'' held in the United States District Court for the Middle District of North Carolina {{DEFAULTSORT:Lawson, Steven F. 21st-century American historians 21st-century American male writers 1945 births Living people Historians of the civil rights movement American male non-fiction writers