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Jerald Podair
Professor Of History and Robert S.

French Professor of American Studies
Lawrence University
711 E Boldt Way SPC 19
Appleton, WI 54911-5699
920-832-6677
Email: podairj@lawrence.edu

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I am Professor of History and the Robert S.

French Professor of American Studies at Lawrence University, in Appleton, Wisconsin, where I have taught since 1998.

He earned a bachelor's degree at New York University, a law degree from Columbia University, and his Ph.D.

He earned a bachelor's degree at New York University, a law degree from Columbia University, and his Ph.D.

He was a major influence on Martin Luther King, Jr.'s philosophy of nonviolent direct action, which led to the strategy that changed the course of American race.

This lecture on Martin Luther King's I Have a Dream speech, delivered at Lawrence University on November 26, , was designed for students and faculty in the.

The Man behind the Leader Bayard Rustin, African American civil rights leader, was also a pacifist, a socialist and a gay rights activist.

That was the moment that King adopted nonviolence as a way of life, and not just a reference in a speech, says Podair, who recounts the incident.

I’m a native of New York City and a former practicing attorney. I received my B.A. from New York University, a J.D. from Columbia University Law School, and a Ph.D. in American history from Princeton University. My research interests are in 20^th century American urban history and racial and ethnic relations.

I am the author of The Strike That Changed New York: Blacks, Whites, and the Ocean Hill-Brownsville Crisis, published by Yale University Press, which was a finalist for the Organization of American Historians’ Liberty Legacy Foundation Award for the best book on the struggle for civ