Leon Frank Litwack (December 2, 1929 – August 5, 2021) was an American historian whose scholarship focuses on slavery, the Reconstruction Era of the United States, and its aftermath into the 20th century. He won a National Book Award, the Pulitzer Prize for History, and the Francis Parkman Prize for his 1979 book Been In the Storm So Long: The Aftermath of Slavery. He also received a Guggenheim Fellowship.
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2 December 1929
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Died |
5 August 2021 (aged 91)
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Zodiac | Sagittarius |
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