Dennis C. Dickerson
James M. Lawson, Jr. Professor of History

B.A. (Lincoln 1971)
M.A., Ph.D. (Washington University, 1974, 1978)
M.Div. (Vanderbilt 2007)

dennis.c.dickerson@vanderbilt.edu




Professor Dickerson teaches American and African-American history. His specialties include labor, the civil rights movement, and African-American religious history. His books include Out of the Crucible: Black Steelworkers in Western Pennsylvania, 1875-1980 (1986) and Militant Mediator: Whitney M. Young, Jr. (1998). As Historiographer of the African Methodist Episcopal Church he has written Religion, Race, and Region: Research Notes on A.M.E. Church History (1995) and A Liberated Past: Explorations in A.M.E. Church History (2003). His forthcoming book is Protestant Preachers in the Public Square: The Careys of Chicago.












 

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