Leon F. Litwack

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1929-12-02

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Santa Barbara, California, USA

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Santa Barbara, California, USA

Wisconsin, USA

South Carolina, USA

Colorado, USA

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University of California, Berkeley ( [1951])

University of California, Berkeley ( [1958])

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Organization of American Historians (Lecturer ∙ Past President)

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Southern Historical Association ( [2008])

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National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship

Pulitzer Prize (History ∙ 1980)

Francis Parkman Prize

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Leon F. Litwack is an American historian and professor of history at the University of California Berkeley. He is the 1980 winner of the Pulitzer Prize for history for his book Been In the Storm So Long: The Aftermath of Slavery. [1] He retired to emeritus status at the end of the Spring 2007 semester.

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Author of Been in the Storm So Long: The Aftermath of Slavery

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