Nan Elizabeth Woodruff

Biography: I am a U. S. Social Historian with an interest in African American History and the social and political history of the U.S. South. My most recent book, American Congo: The African American Freedom Struggle in the Delta (Harvard University Press, 2003), focused on the African American freedom struggle in the Arkansas and Mississippi Delta during the first half of the twentieth century. It received the 2004 McClemore Prize and Honorable Mention for the 2004 Benjamin Hooks Institute for Social Change Book Prize. American Congo was released in paperback by the University of North Carolina Press in 2012. My articles have appeared in the Journal of Southern History, Radical History Review, and in Charles Payne and Adam Green, Time Longer Than Rope: A Century of African American Activism, 1850-1950, among others. I am finishing a book on "Living with the Legacies of Violence in the Jim Crow South: Memory, Trauma, and the 1966 Desegregation in Grenada, Mississippi. Recent Publications: American Congo: The African American Freedom Struggle in the Delta. University of North Carolina Press, 2012, paperback edition. Awards and Service: Howard B. Palmer Faculty Mentoring Award (2013). Department Fields: Twentieth-Century US.

American Congo

June 12, 2013

http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/657983.American_Congo American Congo: The African American Freedom Struggle in the Delta by Nan Elizabeth Woodruff This…

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