Liberty Legacy Foundation Award

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The Liberty Legacy Foundation Award is an annual book award given by the Organization of American Historians (OAH). The award goes to the best book written by a professional historian on the fights for civil rights in the United States anytime from 1776 to the present. [1] Dr. Darlene Clark Hine [2] challenged American historians to research and write on those civil rights episodes taking place in the United States before 1954 in her 2002 OAH presidential speech. [3] A committee of three OAH members, chosen by the OAH president, make the selection. [4] As of 2018, the committee chair is Paul Ortiz bio , with both Carol Anderson bio and Charles McKinney bio rounding out the committee. [5] The Award Winner receives a monetary prize that ranges $1000 and $2000. [6] [7] In the Award's first year (2003), a single Winner and six Finalists were named. In 2004, two Winners were named. In 2006 and 2017, one Winner and one Honorable Mention were named for each year. In 2008, one Winner and two Finalists were named. [8]

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List of Award Winners

In the table below, the link on the "Author" is to the latest biographical site found. The link on the "Affiliation" is the author's workplace at the time of the award.

YearAuthorAffiliationTitlePublisher
2003J. Mills Thornton III bio University of Michigan Dividing Lines: Municipal Politics and the Struggle for Civil Rights in Montgomery, Birmingham, and Selma University of Alabama Press
2004

Co-Winner

Robert Rodgers Korstad bio Duke University Civil Rights Unionism: Tobacco Workers and the Struggle for Democracy in the Mid-Twentieth Century SouthUniversity of North Carolina Press
2004

Co-Winner

 Barbara Ransby UIC Ella Baker and the Black Freedom Movement: A Radical Democratic VisionUniversity of North Carolina Press
2005Nikhil Pal Singh bio University of Washington Black is a Country: Race and the Unfinished Struggle for DemocracyHarvard University Press
2006Matthew J. Countryman bio University of Michigan Up South: Civil Rights and Black Power in PhiladelphiaUniversity of Pennsylvania Press
2007Thomas F. Jackson bio UNC Greensboro From Civil Rights to Human Rights: Martin Luther King, Jr. and the Struggle for Economic Justice University of Pennsylvania Press
2008 Michael Honey bio University of Washington Going Down Jericho Road: The Memphis Strike, Martin Luther King's Last Campaign W. W. Norton & Company
2009Chris Myers Asch bio U.S. Public Service Academy The Senator and the Sharecropper: The Freedom Struggles of James O. Eastland and Fannie Lou Hamer The New Press
2010 Beryl Satter Rutgers–Newark Family Properties: Race, Real Estate, and the Exploitation of Black Urban America Metropolitan Books
2011Chad L. Williams Hamilton College Torchbearers of Democracy: African American Soldiers in the World War I EraUniversity of North Carolina Press
2012 Tomiko Brown-Nagin bio University of Virginia Courage to Dissent: Atlanta and the Long History of the Civil Rights MovementOxford University Press
2013Andrew W. Kahrl bio Marquette University The Land Was Ours: African American Beaches from Jim Crow to the Sunbelt South Harvard University Press
2014Susan D. Carle bio American University Defining the Struggle: National Organizing for Racial Justice, 1880–1915Oxford University Press
2015N. B. D. Connolly bio Johns Hopkins University A World More Concrete: Real Estate and the Remaking of Jim Crow South Florida University of Chicago Press
2016 Tanisha C. Ford UMass Amherst Liberated Threads: Black Women, Style, and the Global Politics of SoulUniversity of North Carolina Press
2017 Russell J. Rickford bio Cornell University We Are an African People: Independent Education, Black Power, and the Radical Imagination Oxford University Press
2018Ula Yvette Taylor bio UC Berkeley The Promise of Patriarchy: Women and the Nation of Islam University of North Carolina Press

List of Award Finalists and Honorable Mentions

YearAward LevelAuthorAffiliationTitlePublisher
2003FinalistGreta De Jong bio University of Nevada, Reno A Different Day: African American Struggles for Justice in Rural Louisiana, 1900-1970University of North Carolina Press
2003Finalist Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz independent scholarOutlaw Woman: A Memoir of the War Years, 1960-1975 City Lights
2003FinalistBarbara Mills Congress of Racial Equality, Baltimore "Got My Mind Set on Freedom" Maryland's Story of Black and White Activism, 1663-2000Heritage Books, Inc.
2003Finalist Jerald E. Podair bio Lawrence University The Strike That Changed New York: Blacks, Whites, and the Ocean Hill-Brownsville Crisis Yale University Press
2003FinalistMark Robert Schneider UMass Boston "We Return Fighting": The Civil Rights Movement in the Jazz Age Northeastern University Press
2003FinalistJohn D. Skrentny bio UCSD The Minority Rights Revolution Belknap Press
2006Honorable MentionEmilye Crosby bio SUNY Geneseo A Little Taste of Freedom: The Black Freedom Struggle in Claiborne County, MississippiUniversity of North Carolina Press
2008FinalistKent Germany bio University of South Carolina New Orleans After the Promises: Poverty, Citizenship and the Search for a Great Society University of Georgia Press
2008FinalistLaurie Green bio UT Austin Battling the Plantation Mentality: Memphis and the Black Freedom StruggleUniversity of North Carolina Press
2017Honorable Mention Elizabeth Hinton bio Harvard University From the War on Poverty to the War on Crime: The Making of Mass Incarceration in AmericaHarvard University Press

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References

  1. ↑ "Liberty Legacy Foundation Award". The Organization of American Historians: Programs & Resources: OAH Awards and Prizes. The Organization of American Historians. Retrieved 2013-11-12.
  2. ↑ Darlene Clark Hine Last viewed on March 9, 2011.
  3. ↑ "Black professionals and Race Consciousness: Origins of the Civil Rights Movement, 1890-1955" 2002 OAH Presidential Address and Awards Ceremony (April 12, 2002), p. 19. "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2011-01-07. Retrieved 2011-03-10.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) Last viewed on March 9, 2011
  4. ↑ Award and Prize Committees Archived 2010-11-06 at the Wayback Machine Last viewed on March 9, 2011.
  5. ↑ Organization of American Historians: Liberty Legacy Foundation Award Last viewed on June 11, 2018.
  6. ↑ Liberty Legacy Foundation Award - Apply for College Scholarships Last viewed on June 11, 2018.
  7. ↑ Liberty Legacy Foundation Award - Organization of American Historians - CollegeXpress
  8. ↑ Organization of American Historians: Liberty Legacy Foundation Award Winners Last viewed on June 11, 2018.
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