Adam Fairclough
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Adam Fairclough is a British
historian of the United States
. He is currently the Raymond and Beverly Sackler Professor of American History at the University of Leiden in the Netherlands
. Since 2008, he has also served as the chair of the Netherlands American Studies Association. He has written on a number of subjects, and specializes in the 1960s Civil Rights Movement and the period of Reconstruction. His best known work is To Redeem the Soul of America: The Southern Christian Leadership Conference and Martin Luther King, Jr.
British people
The British are citizens of the United Kingdom, of the Isle of Man, any of the Channel Islands, or of any of the British overseas territories, and their descendants...
historian of the United States
History of the United States
The history of the United States traditionally starts with the Declaration of Independence in the year 1776, although its territory was inhabited by Native Americans since prehistoric times and then by European colonists who followed the voyages of Christopher Columbus starting in 1492. The...
. He is currently the Raymond and Beverly Sackler Professor of American History at the University of Leiden in the Netherlands
Netherlands
The Netherlands is a constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, located mainly in North-West Europe and with several islands in the Caribbean. Mainland Netherlands borders the North Sea to the north and west, Belgium to the south, and Germany to the east, and shares maritime borders...
. Since 2008, he has also served as the chair of the Netherlands American Studies Association. He has written on a number of subjects, and specializes in the 1960s Civil Rights Movement and the period of Reconstruction. His best known work is To Redeem the Soul of America: The Southern Christian Leadership Conference and Martin Luther King, Jr.
Partial Bibliography
- To Redeem the Soul of America: The Southern Christian Leadership Conference and Martin Luther King, Jr. (1987)
- Race & Democracy: The Civil Rights Struggle in Louisiana, 1915-1972, University of GeorgiaUniversity of GeorgiaThe University of Georgia is a public research university located in Athens, Georgia, United States. Founded in 1785, it is the oldest and largest of the state's institutions of higher learning and is one of multiple schools to claim the title of the oldest public university in the United States...
Press (Lillian Smith Book AwardLillian Smith Book AwardJointly presented by the Southern Regional Council and the University of Georgia Libraries, the Lillian Smith Book Awards honor those authors who, through their outstanding writing about the American South, carry on Smith's legacy of elucidating the condition of racial and social inequity and...
winner, 1995) - Better Day Coming: Blacks and Equality, 1890-2000, Viking Press (2001)
- A Class of Their Own: Black Teachers in the Segregated South (2006)