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. Dr. Darlene Clark HineDarlene Clark Hine Last viewed on March 9, 2011. 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."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. Last viewed on March 9, 2011 A committee of three OAH members, chosen by the OAH president, make the selection.Award and Prize Committees Last viewed on March 9, 2011. As of 2018, the committee chair is Paul Ortiz, with both Carol Anderson and Charles McKinney rounding out the committee.Organization of American Historians: Liberty Legacy Foundation Award Last viewed on June 11, 2018. The Award Winner receives a monetary prize that ranges $1000 and $2000.Liberty Legacy Foundation Award - Apply for College Scholarships Last viewed on June 11, 2018.Liberty Legacy Foundation Award - Organization of American Historians - CollegeXpress 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.Organization of American Historians: Liberty Legacy Foundation Award Winners Last viewed on June 11, 2018.
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.
YearAuthorAffiliationTitlePublisher2003 J. Mills Thornton IIIUniversity of Michigan Dividing Lines: Municipal Politics and the Struggle for Civil Rights in Montgomery, Birmingham, and SelmaUniversity of Alabama Press2004 Co-WinnerRobert Rodgers KorstadDuke University Civil Rights Unionism: Tobacco Workers and the Struggle for Democracy in the Mid-Twentieth Century South University of North Carolina Press2004 Co-WinnerBarbara RansbyUIC Ella Baker and the Black Freedom Movement: A Radical Democratic Vision University of North Carolina Press2005Nikhil Pal SinghUniversity of WashingtonBlack is a Country: Race and the Unfinished Struggle for Democracy Harvard University Press2006 Matthew J. CountrymanUniversity of Michigan Up South: Civil Rights and Black Power in Philadelphia University of Pennsylvania Press2007Thomas F. JacksonUNC Greensboro From Civil Rights to Human Rights: Martin Luther King, Jr. and the Struggle for Economic JusticeUniversity of Pennsylvania Press2008Michael HoneyUniversity of Washington Going Down Jericho Road: The Memphis Strike, Martin Luther King's Last Campaign W. W. Norton & Company2009 Chris Myers AschU.S. Public Service AcademyThe Senator and the Sharecropper: The Freedom Struggles of James O. Eastland and Fannie Lou HamerThe New Press2010Beryl SatterRutgers–Newark Family Properties: Race, Real Estate, and the Exploitation of Black Urban AmericaMetropolitan Books2011Chad L. WilliamsHamilton College Torchbearers of Democracy: African American Soldiers in the World War I EraUniversity of North Carolina Press2012Tomiko Brown-NaginUniversity of Virginia Courage to Dissent: Atlanta and the Long History of the Civil Rights MovementOxford University Press2013Andrew W. KahrlMarquette University The Land Was Ours: African American Beaches from Jim Crow to the Sunbelt SouthHarvard University Press2014Susan D. CarleAmerican University Defining the Struggle: National Organizing for Racial Justice, 1880–1915Oxford University Press2015N. B. D. ConnollyJohns Hopkins University A World More Concrete: Real Estate and the Remaking of Jim Crow South FloridaUniversity of Chicago Press2016Tanisha C. FordUMass Amherst Liberated Threads: Black Women, Style, and the Global Politics of SoulUniversity of North Carolina Press2017Russell J. RickfordCornell University We Are an African People: Independent Education, Black Power, and the Radical ImaginationOxford University Press2018Ula Yvette TaylorUC Berkeley The Promise of Patriarchy: Women and the Nation of Islam University of North Carolina Press
List of Award Finalists and Honorable Mentions YearAward LevelAuthorAffiliationTitlePublisher2003FinalistGreta De JongUniversity of Nevada, RenoA Different Day: African American Struggles for Justice in Rural Louisiana, 1900-1970University of North Carolina Press2003FinalistRoxanne Dunbar-Ortiz independent scholarOutlaw Woman: A Memoir of the War Years, 1960-1975 City Lights2003FinalistBarbara MillsCongress of Racial Equality, Baltimore"Got My Mind Set on Freedom" Maryland's Story of Black and White Activism, 1663-2000 Heritage Books, Inc.2003FinalistJerald E. PodairLawrence UniversityThe Strike That Changed New York: Blacks, Whites, and the Ocean Hill-Brownsville CrisisYale University Press2003FinalistMark Robert Schneider UMass Boston"We Return Fighting": The Civil Rights Movement in the Jazz Age Northeastern University Press2003FinalistJohn D. SkrentnyUCSD The Minority Rights RevolutionBelknap Press2006Honorable MentionEmilye CrosbySUNY Geneseo A Little Taste of Freedom: The Black Freedom Struggle in Claiborne County, Mississippi University of North Carolina Press2008FinalistKent GermanyUniversity of South Carolina New Orleans After the Promises: Poverty, Citizenship and the Search for a Great SocietyUniversity of Georgia Press2008FinalistLaurie GreenUT Austin Battling the Plantation Mentality: Memphis and the Black Freedom Struggle University of North Carolina Press2017Honorable MentionElizabeth HintonHarvard University From the War on Poverty to the War on Crime: The Making of Mass Incarceration in AmericaHarvard University Press
References
External links Paul Ortiz Last viewed on June 11, 2018. Carol Anderson Last viewed on June 11, 2018. Charles McKinney Last viewed on June 11, 2018. 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. 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. Chad Williams Last viewed on June 11, 2018. Tomiko Brown-Nagin Last viewed on June 11, 2018. Andrew W. Kahrl Last viewed on June 11, 2018. Susan D. Carle Last viewed on June 11, 2018. N. B. D. Connolly Last viewed on June 11, 2018. Russell J. Rickford Last viewed on June 11, 2018. Elizabeth Hinton Last viewed on June 11, 2018. Ula Yvette Taylor Last viewed on June 11, 2018.