Dr. Yohuru R. WilliamsAssociate Professor of African American History |
o: Canisius Hall Rm 323 |
B.A., M.A., University of Scranton
Ph.D., Howard University
Current Research Interests
Dr. Williams is presently finishing up a single-authored book entitled Six Degrees of Segregation: Lynching, Capital Punishment and Jim Crow Justice, 1865-1960.
Research Fields:
- African American History
- Civil Rights/Black Power Movements
- African American Constitutional and Legal History
- Urban History, Twentieth Century American History
- The African Diaspora
- History and Social Studies Pedagogy
Courses Taught
- HI 10: Origins of Modern World
- HI 30: Europe & World in Transition
- HI 239: 20th Century United States
- HI 243: Amer Const&Legal HI I 76-1900
- HI 244: American Constitutional II
- HI 264: African-Amer History,from 1865
- HI 397: SpTop:LongBlackFreedomMove