C. Vann Woodward
American historian (1908–1999) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Comer Vann Woodward (November 13, 1908 – December 17, 1999) was an American historian who focused primarily on the American South and race relations. He was long a supporter of the approach of Charles A. Beard, stressing the influence of unseen economic motivations in politics.
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Born | Comer Vann Woodward (1908-11-13)November 13, 1908 |
Died | December 17, 1999(1999-12-17) (aged 91) Hamden, Connecticut, U.S. |
Alma mater | Emory University (BA) Columbia University (MA) University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill (PhD) |
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Doctoral advisor | Howard K. Beale |
Doctoral students | John W. Blassingame |
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Woodward was on the left end of the history profession in the 1930s. By the 1950s he was a leading liberal and supporter of civil rights. His book The Strange Career of Jim Crow, which demonstrated that racial segregation was an invention of the late 19th century rather than an inevitable post-Civil-War development, was endorsed by Martin Luther King Jr. as "the historical Bible of the civil rights movement". After attacks on him by the New Left in the late 1960s, he moved to the right politically.[1] He won a Pulitzer Prize for History for his annotated edition of Mary Chestnut's Civil War diaries.