\nDescribed in Diverse Issues in Higher Education as “one of the most exciting scholars of his generation,” Dr. Yohuru Williams is the History Department Chair and the Director of Black Studies at Fairfield University in Fairfield, CT. He...\nDescribed in Diverse Issues in Higher Education as “one of the most exciting scholars of his generation,” Dr. Yohuru Williams is the History Department Chair and the Director of Black Studies at Fairfield University in Fairfield, CT. He is also Chief Historian for the Jackie Robinson Foundation and Museum in New York, NY. He received his Ph.D. from Howard University in 1998.
Dr. Williams is the author of Black Politics/White Power: Civil Rights, Black Power and the Black Panthers in New Haven (Blackwell, 2000) and Teaching U.S. History Beyond the Textbook: Six Investigative Strategies, Grades 5-12 (Corwin Press, 2008) and the editor of A Constant Struggle: African-American History, 1865-Present (Kendall Hunt, 2002). He is the co-editor of In Search of the Black Panther Party: New Perspectives on a Revolutionary Movement (Duke, 2006), and Liberated Territory: Untold Local Perspectives on the Black Panther Party (Duke, 2008). He also served as general editor for the Association for the Study of African American Life and History's 2002 and 2003 Black History Month publications The Color Line Revisited: Is Racism Dead? (Tapestry Press, 2002) and The Souls of Black Folks: Centennial Reflections (Africa World Press, 2003). Dr. Williams served as an advisor on the popular civil rights reader Putting the Movement Back into Teaching Civil Rights (Teaching for Change and PRRAC, 2004). Dr. Williams is presently completing a single-authored book, titled Six Degrees of Segregation: Lynching, Capital Punishment, and Jim Crow Justice, 1865-1930.
Dr. Williams' scholarly articles have appeared in publications such as the American Bar Association’s Insights on Law and Society, the Organization of American Historians’ Magazine of History, the Pennsylvania Historical Association’s Pennsylvania History, and the Delaware Historical Society’s Delaware History, as well as in The Black Scholar, The Journal of Black Studies, and the Black History Bulletin.\n
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