Leslie Brown (historian)

Leslie Brown (born New York City) is an American historian.

Life

Brown grew up in Albany, New York. She graduated from Tufts University, and from Duke University with an A. M. and Ph.D. From 1990-1995, she co-coordinated "Behind the Veil: Documenting African American Life in the Jim Crow South".^[1]

She taught at Duke University, Skidmore College, Washington University in St. Louis and currently teaches at Williams College in Williamstown, Massachusetts.^[2]

She is working on a monograph on African American women and migration, a book about the black life in the segregated south, an edited collection of interviews from the "Behind the Veil Project", and a compilation of writing and speeches by Shirley Chisholm.

Awards

• 2009 Frederick Jackson Turner Award
• 2011 Oral History Association Book Prize

Works

• Upbuilding Black Durham: Gender, Class, and Black Community Development in the Urban South. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press. 2008. ISBN 978-0-8078-5835-6.

References

1. Web Site and Film Resources for Teaching Jim Crow. Organization of American Historians Archived September 21, 2009, at the Wayback Machine.
2. Leslie Brown—Associate Professor of History. Williams College (Web.williams.edu), retrieved March 18, 2011

External links

• "Leslie Brown and “Upbuilding Black Durham”", UNC Press blog
• "Leslie Brown: Black Women Historians in the Ivory Tower", History News Network