| Leon F. Litwack AKA Leon Frank Litwack Born: 2-Dec-1929
Birthplace: Santa Barbara, CA
Gender: Male
Religion: Jewish
Race or Ethnicity: White
Occupation: Historian Nationality: United States
Executive summary: Been In the Storm So Long Military service: US Army University: BA, University of California at Berkeley (1951)
University: MA, University of California at Berkeley (1952)
University: PhD, University of California at Berkeley (1958)
Instructor: University of Wisconsin-Madison (1958-65)
Professor: University of California at Berkeley (1965-2007)
Pulitzer Prize for History 1980 for Been in the Storm So Long
Guggenheim Fellowship
American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Organization of American Historians President
Stroke 2002
Author of books:
North of Slavery: The Negro in the Free States, 1790-1860 (1961, history)
The American Labor Movement (1962, history)
Been in the Storm So Long: The Aftermath of Slavery (1979, history)
Trouble in Mind: Black Southerners in the Age of Jim Crow (1998, history)
How Free Is Free? The Long Death of Jim Crow (2009, history)
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