He was born in the Borough of Brooklyn in New York City and graduated summa cum laude from Morehouse College with a B.A. in history in 1994. He became a member of the Pi chapter of Kappa Alpha Psi fraternity. He received a Ph.D. in American history with a specialization in African American history from Duke University in 2002.
Career
He taught for a year at the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa before joining Ohio State's faculty in 2003. His profile page also states he was the lead historian and primary scriptwriter for the $27 million renovation of the National Civil Rights Museum at the Lorraine Hotel in Memphis,Tennessee from 2010 to 2014 and worked on the PBS documentary Black America Since MLK. He hosts a podcast called "Teaching Hard History" for the Southern Poverty Law Center's educational division,Teaching Tolerance.[3]
Jeffries, Hasan Kwame (2009). Bloody Lowndes: civil rights and Black power in Alabama's Black Belt. New York. ISBN978-0-8147-4305-8. OCLC276816664.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
Jeffries, Hasan Kwame (2019). Understanding and teaching the civil rights movement. Madison, Wisconsin. ISBN978-0-299-32190-1. OCLC1089883602.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link), editor, a collection of essays by civil rights scholars and teachers
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