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Steven Fred Lawson (born June 14, 1945) is an American historian of theCivil Rights Movement in the United States.^[1] He is an emeritus professor at Rutgers University–New Brunswick.^[2]

Born in theBronx,New York, he is the son of Ceil Parker Lawson, a housewife, and Murray Lawson, a retail hardware clerk.^{[citation needed]} He had a sister, Lona Lawson Mirchin, who died in 2004.^{[citation needed]}

He earned his Ph.D. in history from Columbia University in 1974.^[2] After teaching at various colleges and universities for forty years, he is now retired, works as an independent scholar, and shares a home in New Jersey with his wife Nancy A. Hewitt and their miniature poodle, Scooter (named after 1950sNew York Yankees star and broadcasterPhil Rizzuto).^{[citation needed]}

• (2012)Exploring American Histories. Bedford/St. Martin’s Press.(with Nancy A. Hewitt)
• (2009)One America in the Twenty-first Century: The Report of President Bill Clinton’s Initiative on Race. New Haven, Yale University Press
• (2004) To Secure These Rights: President Harry S Truman’s Committee on Civil Rights Boston: Bedford-St. Martin’s.
• (2003)Civil Rights Crossroads: Nation, Community, and the Black Freedom Struggle. University Press of Kentucky. 2003.ISBN 978-0-8131-2287-8.
• (2003) Co-authorsDarlene Clark Hine;Merline Pitre.Black Victory: The Rise and Fall of the White Primary in Texas. University of Missouri Press.
• (1998) Co-authorCharles Payne.Debating the Civil Rights Movement, 1945-1968. Lanham, Maryland: Rowman- Littlefield.
• (1997)Running for Freedom: Civil Rights and Black Politics in America Since 1941 (Second ed.). New York: McGraw-Hill.
• (1985)In Pursuit of Power: Southern Blacks and Electoral Politics, 1965–1982. New York: Columbia University Press.
• (1976)Black Ballots: Voting Rights in the South, 1944-1969 (Reprint with new preface ed.). Lanham, Maryland: Lexington Books.

• "Preserving the Second Reconstruction: Enforcement of the Voting Rights Act, 1965-1975".Southern Studies.22 (1). Spring 1983.
• "Freedom Then, Freedom Now: The Historiography of the Civil Rights Movement,"American Historical Review, 96 (April 1991): 456- 71.
• Race and Reapportionment, 1962: The Case of Georgia Senate Redistricting,Journal of Policy History, 12(Summer, 2000): 1-28(co-author with Peyton McCrary).

• Lawson, Steven F. (August 28, 2013)."The Opinion Pages: 'I Have a Dream,' Then and Now".The New York Times. RetrievedSeptember 7, 2015.
• Lawson, Steven F.; Hewitt, Nancy A. (June 6, 2011)."Letters to the Editor: United Against Aids (2 Letters)".The New York Times. RetrievedSeptember 7, 2015.
• Lawson, Steven F. (November 9, 2008)."The first – and last? – black president".The Boston Globe. p. 134.
• Lawson, Steven F.; Perez, Louis A. Jr. (March 31, 1978)."Oral History".St. Petersburg Independent. p. 15A.

• Faculty page atRutgers University
• Declaration of Steven F. Lawson, Ph.D. Case No.: 1:13-CV-861 From the caseUnited States of America vs. The State Of North Carolina; The North Carolina State Board of Elections; and Kim W. Strach held in the United States District Court for the Middle District of North Carolina

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