?Reverend C.L. Franklin and Black Political Consciousness:
From Mississippi to Detroit?
Nick Salvatore, Professor of American Studies
Cornell University
Nick Salvatorelink is the Maurice and Hinda Neufeld Founders Professor of Industrial Relations and professor of American studies at Cornell University.He received his Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley in 1977. He is author of Eugene V. Debs: Citizen and Socialist (1982), which received the Bancroft Prize and the John H. Dunning Prize, and We All Got History: The Memory Books of Amos Webber (1996), which received the New England History Association?s Outstanding Book Prize. He has recently published Singing in a Strange Land : C. L. Franklin, the Black Church, and the Transformation of America, a biography of Reverend C. L. Franklin, an influential preacher, committed social activist, and longtime pastor of Detroit?s New Bethel Baptist Church. Mr. Salvatore is currently participating in the 2004-2005 OAH Distinguished Lectureship Program.
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