Liberty Legacy Foundation Award

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] The winner receives $800.00. In the Award’s first year (2003) a winner and six “Finalists” were named. In 2004, two winners were named. In 2006, one winner and one “Honorable Mention” were named. In 2008, one winner and two “Finalists” were named.^[5]

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	Winner	Affiliation	Title
2003 Winner	J. Mills Thornton III^bio	University of Michigan	Dividing Lines: Municipal Politics and the Struggle for Civil Rights in Montgomery, Birmingham, and Selma
2003 Finalist	Greta De Jong^bio	University of Nevada, Reno	A Different Day: African American Struggles for Justice in Rural Louisiana, 1900-1970
2003 Finalist	Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz	independent scholar	Outlaw Woman: A Memoir of the War Years, 1960-1975
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
2003 Finalist	Jerald E. Podair^bio	Lawrence University	The Strike that Changed New York: Blacks, Whites, and the Ocean Hill-Brownsville Crisis
2003 Finalist	Mark Robert Schneider	University of Massachusetts Boston	"We Return Fighting": The Civil Rights Movement in the Jazz Age
2003 Finalist	John D. Skrentny^bio	University of California, San Diego	The Minority Rights Revolution
2004 Co-Winner	Robert Rodgers Korstad^bio	Duke University	Civil Rights Unionism: Tobacco Workers and the Struggle for Democracy in the Mid-Twentieth Century South
2004 Co-Winner	Barbara Ransby^bio	University of Illinois at Chicago	Ella Baker and the Black Freedom Movement: A Radical Democratic Vision
2005 Winner	Nikhil Pal Singh^bio	University of Washington	Black is a Country: Race and the Unfinished Struggle for Democracy
2006 Winner	Matthew J. Countryman^bio	University of Michigan	Up South: Civil Rights and Black Power in Philadelphia
2006 Honorable Mention	Emilye Crosby^bio	State University of New York, Geneseo	A Little Taste of Freedom: The Black Freedom Struggle in Claiborne County, Mississippi
2007 Winner	Thomas F. Jackson^bio	University of North Carolina Greensboro	From Civil Rights to Human Rights: Martin Luther King, Jr. and the Struggle for Economic Justice
2008 Winner	Michael Honey^bio	University of Washington	Going Down Jericho Road: The Memphis Strike, Martin Luther King's Last Campaign
2008 Finalist	Kent Germany^bio	University of South Carolina	New Orleans After the Promises: Poverty, Citizenship and the Search for a Great Society
2008 Finalist	Laurie Green^bio	University of Texas, Austin	Battling the Plantation Mentality: Memphis and the Black Freedom Struggle
2009 Winner	Chris Myers Asch^bio	U.S. Public Service Academy	The Senator and the Sharecropper: The Freedom Struggles of James O. Eastland and Fannie Lou Hamer
2010 Winner	Beryl Satter^bio	Rutgers University at Newark	Family Properties: Race, Real Estate, and the Exploitation of Black Urban America

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. http://www.oah.org/activities/awards/2002/2002AwardsBooklet.pdf Last viewed on March 9, 2011
4. Award and Prize Committees Last viewed on March 9, 2011.
5. Liberty Legacy Foundation Award Last viewed on March 9, 2011.

External links

• ^ J. Mills Thornton Last viewed on March 9, 2011.
• ^ Greta de Jong Last viewed on March 9, 2011.
• ^ Jerald E. Podair Last viewed on March 9, 2011.
• ^ John D. Skrentny Last viewed on March 9, 2011.
• ^ Robert Rodgers Korstad Last viewed on march 9, 2011.
• ^ About Dr. Barbara Ransby Last viewed on March 9, 2011.
• ^ Nikhil Pal Singh Last viewed on March 9, 2011.
• ^ Matthew J. Countryman Last viewed on March 9, 2011.
• ^ Emilye Crosby Last viewed on March 9, 2011.
• ^ Thomas F. Jackson Last viewed on March 9, 2011.
• ^ Michael Honey Last viewed on March 9, 2011.
• ^ Kent Germany Last viewed on March 10, 2011.
• ^ Laurie Green Last viewed on March 10, 2011.
• ^ Chris Myers Asch with the U.S. Public Service Academy Last viewed on March 10, 2011.
• ^ Beryl Satter Last viewed on March 10, 2011.