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Harvard Sitkoff (born 1941 ) is an American historian.

Life

He lives in Durham, New Hampshire.

Career

He is a professor emeritus of history at the University of New Hampshire. He contributed to the 1974 Encyclopedia of American Biography, most notably with an entry on Muhammad Ali, and has also written on the politics of Martin Luther King Jr. Describing that period, Sitkoff has called the summer of 1967 the "most intense and destructive wave of racial violence the nation had ever witnessed".

Partial Bibliography

• The Struggle for Black Equality: 1954-1992
• King: Pilgrimage to the Mountaintop
• A New Deal for Blacks: The Emergence of Civil Rights as a National Issue: The Depression Decade
• The Struggle for Black Equality
• Perspectives on Modern America: Making Sense of the Twentieth Century
• Fifty Years Later: New Deal Evaluated
• Toward Freedom Land: The Long Struggle for Racial Equality in America

References

1. ^ "Harvard Sitkoff". OverDrive. Retrieved January 30, 2017. Harvard Sitkoff, professor emeritus of history at the University of New Hampshire He lives in Durham, New Hampshire.
2. "Noted Civil Rights Scholar Authors Acclaimed Biography of MLK". www.newswise.com. January 10, 2008.
3. Cohen, David (June 4, 2016). "Muhammad Ali dies at 74". Politico.
4. Jilani, Zaid (January 18, 2016). "Martin Luther King Jr. Celebrations Overlook His Critiques of Capitalism and Militarism". The Intercept.
5. Winkler, Adam (September 2011). "The Secret History of Guns". The Atlantic.

External links

• Official website

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