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 Ortizbio, with both Carol Andersonbio and Charles McKinneybio 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]

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.

Year Author Affiliation Title Publisher
2003 J. Mills Thornton IIIbio 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 Korstadbio Duke University Civil Rights Unionism: Tobacco Workers and the Struggle for Democracy in the Mid-Twentieth Century South University of North Carolina Press
2004

Co-Winner

 Barbara Ransbybio UIC Ella Baker and the Black Freedom Movement: A Radical Democratic Vision University of North Carolina Press
2005 Nikhil Pal Singhbio University of Washington Black is a Country: Race and the Unfinished Struggle for Democracy Harvard University Press
2006 Matthew J. Countrymanbio University of Michigan Up South: Civil Rights and Black Power in Philadelphia University of Pennsylvania Press
2007 Thomas F. Jacksonbio UNC Greensboro From Civil Rights to Human Rights: Martin Luther King, Jr. and the Struggle for Economic Justice University of Pennsylvania Press
2008 Michael Honeybio University of Washington Going Down Jericho Road: The Memphis Strike, Martin Luther King's Last Campaign W. W. Norton & Company
2009 Chris Myers Aschbio 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 Satterbio Rutgers–Newark Family Properties: Race, Real Estate, and the Exploitation of Black Urban America Metropolitan Books
2011 Chad L. Williams Hamilton College Torchbearers of Democracy: African American Soldiers in the World War I Era University of North Carolina Press
2012 Tomiko Brown-Naginbio University of Virginia Courage to Dissent: Atlanta and the Long History of the Civil Rights Movement Oxford University Press
2013 Andrew W. Kahrlbio Marquette University The Land Was Ours: African American Beaches from Jim Crow to the Sunbelt South Harvard University Press
2014 Susan D. Carlebio American University Defining the Struggle: National Organizing for Racial Justice, 1880–1915 Oxford University Press
2015 N. B. D. Connollybio Johns Hopkins University A World More Concrete: Real Estate and the Remaking of Jim Crow South Florida University of Chicago Press
2016 Tanisha C. Fordbio UMass Amherst Liberated Threads: Black Women, Style, and the Global Politics of Soul University of North Carolina Press
2017 Russell J. Rickfordbio Cornell University We Are an African People: Independent Education, Black Power, and the Radical Imagination Oxford University Press
2018 Ula Yvette Taylorbio UC Berkeley The Promise of Patriarchy: Women and the Nation of Islam University of North Carolina Press

List of Award Finalists and Honorable Mentions

Year Award Level Author Affiliation Title Publisher
2003 Finalist Greta De Jongbio University of Nevada, Reno A Different Day: African American Struggles for Justice in Rural Louisiana, 1900-1970 University of North Carolina Press
2003 Finalist Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz independent scholar Outlaw Woman: A Memoir of the War Years, 1960-1975 City Lights
2003 Finalist Barbara Mills Congress of Racial Equality, Baltimore "Got My Mind Set on Freedom" Maryland's Story of Black and White Activism, 1663-2000 Heritage Books, Inc.
2003 Finalist Jerald E. Podairbio Lawrence University The Strike That Changed New York: Blacks, Whites, and the Ocean Hill-Brownsville Crisis Yale University Press
2003 Finalist Mark Robert Schneider UMass Boston "We Return Fighting": The Civil Rights Movement in the Jazz Age Northeastern University Press
2003 Finalist John D. Skrentnybio UCSD The Minority Rights Revolution Belknap Press
2006 Honorable Mention Emilye Crosbybio SUNY Geneseo A Little Taste of Freedom: The Black Freedom Struggle in Claiborne County, Mississippi University of North Carolina Press
2008 Finalist Kent Germanybio University of South Carolina New Orleans After the Promises: Poverty, Citizenship and the Search for a Great Society University of Georgia Press
2008 Finalist Laurie Greenbio UT Austin Battling the Plantation Mentality: Memphis and the Black Freedom Struggle University of North Carolina Press
2017 Honorable Mention Elizabeth Hintonbio Harvard University From the War on Poverty to the War on Crime: The Making of Mass Incarceration in America Harvard University Press

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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