![]() ![]() Her current project is a full-length biography of Lucy Parsons, orator and labor agitator, who was born to an enslaved woman in Virginia in 1851. ![]() She served as Vice President for the Professional Division of the American Historical Association from 2011 to 2014. She has won numerous grants and awards, including a MacArthur Fellowship (1999-2004). Other works include Saving Savannah: The City and the Civil War, 1854-1872 (2008) Creek Walking: Growing Up in Delaware in the 1950s (2001) A Social History of the Laboring Classes from Colonial Times to the Present (1999) American Work: Four Centuries of Black and White Labor (1998) The Dispossessed: America’s Underclasses from the Civil War to the Present (1993) and Soldiers of Light and Love: Northern Teachers and Georgia Blacks, 1865-1873 (1992). That book and Labor of Love, Labor of Sorrow: Black Women, Work and the Family from Slavery to the Present (25 th Anniversary Edition, 2010) were finalists for the Pulitzer Prize Labor of Love won the Bancroft Prize for 1986. ![]() Jacqueline Jones is the author of several books, including, most recently, A Dreadful Deceit: The Myth of Race from the Colonial Era to Obama’s America (2013). ![]() Saturday, May 21 03:45 - 05:30 PM Session 8 African American History as American History ![]()
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