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

Life

He received his BA degree from

Duke University Duke University is a Private university, private research university in Durham, North Carolina, United States. Founded by Methodists and Quakers in the present-day city of Trinity, North Carolina, Trinity in 1838, the school moved to Durham in 1 ...

and his PhD from

University of California Berkeley The University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley, Berkeley, Cal, or California), is a public land-grant research university in Berkeley, California, United States. Founded in 1868 and named after the Anglo-Irish philosopher George Berkeley ...

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 The Organization of American Historians (OAH), formerly known as the Mississippi Valley Historical Association, is the largest professional society dedicated to the teaching and study of American history. OAH's members in the U.S. and abroad incl ...

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 academics 20th-century American academics African-American male writers 21st-century African-American academics 21st-century American academics {{US-historian-stub