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I saw today in the New York Times that the extremely influential historian Leon Litwack just died at 91. Last year I read two of his most famous works: Been in the Storm So Long: The Aftermath of Slavery and Trouble in Mind: Black Southerners in the Age of Jim Crow. The first of those two won a Pulitzer Prize.
From the Times obituary:
"Beginning in the early 1960s, a time when many historians still treated enslaved and freed Black people as passive actors in their own narratives, he cut a different path, immersing himself in the archives to discover Black voices and their stories and show how they thought about, and struggled against, oppression."
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/12/us/leon-litwack-dead.html
From the Times obituary:
"Beginning in the early 1960s, a time when many historians still treated enslaved and freed Black people as passive actors in their own narratives, he cut a different path, immersing himself in the archives to discover Black voices and their stories and show how they thought about, and struggled against, oppression."
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/12/us/leon-litwack-dead.html
