Lawson, Steven F.

STEVEN F. LAWSON has taught at the University of South Florida and the University of North Carolina at Greensboro and is now professor of American history and vice-chair for undergraduate education at Rutgers University. He is the author of "Black Ballots: Voting Rights in the South, 19441;1969; In Pursuit of Power: Southern Blacks and Electoral Politics, 19651;1982; Running for Freedom: Civil Rights and Black Politics in America Since 1941;" and, with Charles Payne, "Debating the Civil Rights Movement, 19451;1968," He served as an academic adviser to the public television documentary series "...