Adam Fairclough (born 1952) is a British historian of theUnited States. He is the Raymond and Beverly Sackler Professor of American History at theUniversity of Leiden in theNetherlands. Between 2008 and 2014, he served as the chair of the Netherlands American Studies Association.^[1][2] He has written on a number of subjects, and specializes in theCivil Rights Movement and the period ofReconstruction. His best known work isTo Redeem the Soul of America: The Southern Christian Leadership Conference and Martin Luther King, Jr. Fairclough is a qualified expert in the field of American History, but specializes in theCivil Rights Movement.

• To Redeem the Soul of America: The Southern Christian Leadership Conference and Martin Luther King, Jr.,University of Georgia Press (1987)
• Race & Democracy: The Civil Rights Struggle in Louisiana, 1915-1972,University of Georgia Press (Lillian Smith Book Award winner, 1995)
• Better Day Coming: Blacks and Equality, 1890-2000,Viking Press (2001)
• A Class of Their Own: Black Teachers in the Segregated South, Belknap Press ofHarvard University Press (2006)
• The Revolution That Failed : Reconstruction in Natchitoches,University of Florida Press (2018)
• Teaching Equality: Black Schools in the Age of Jim Crow,University of Georgia Press (2001)

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