Yohuru Williams, Ph.D

Dr. Yohuru Williams is Associate Professor of History and Co-Director of Black Studies at Fairfield University. He received his Ph.D. from Howard University in 1998 and after six years as a professor of history and director of Black Studies and Graduate Studies at Delaware State University joined Fairfield's faculty in the fall of 2005.

Dr. Williams is the author of Black Politics/White Power: Civil Rights Black Power and Black Panthers in New Haven (Brandywine Press, 2000) and A Constant Struggle: African-American History from 1865 to the Present Documents and Essays (Kendall Hunt, 2002). He also served as general editor for the Association for the Study of African American Life and History's 2002 and 2003 Black History Month publications, The Color Line Revisited (Tapestry Press, 2002) and The Souls of Black Folks: Centennial Reflections (Africa World Press, 2003). Dr. Williams served as an advisor on the popular civil rights reader Putting the Movement Back into teaching Civil Rights.

Dr. Williams's scholarly articles have appeared in The Black Scholar, The Journal of Black Studies, Pennsylvania History and the Black History Bulletin. He has two forth coming books from Duke University Press on the Black Panther Party which he co-edited with Jama Lazerow of Wheelock College. Dr. Williams is also presently finishing up a single authored book entitled Six Degrees of Segregation: Lynching, Capital Punishment and Jim Crow Justice 1865-1930.

Publications

Books

Short Publications

• Norman Rockwell, the Man and his Art. Teacher Instruction Guide Cinegram CD September 2000.

Articles

• Yohuru Williams. "Permission to Hate: Delaware, Lynching and the Culture of Violence in America." Journal of Black Studies. September 2001. Vol. 32 No. 1
• Yohuru Williams. "No Haven: From Civil Rights to Black Power in New Haven, Connecticut." The Black Scholar. September 2001. Vol. No.
• Yohuru Williams."A Series of Frustrations, John Hope Franklin's troubled tenure at Howard University," Negro History Bulletin. Special Howard University edition. January-September 1999. Vol. 62 No.1
• Yohuru Williams. "In the Name of the Law: The 1967 shooting of Huey Newton and Law Enforcement's Permissive Environment." Negro History Bulletin. April-June 1998. Vol. 61 No.2
• Yohuru Williams."American Exported Black Nationalism: The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, the Black Panther Party, and the Worldwide Freedom Struggle,1967-1972." Negro History Bulletin. July-September 1997. Vol. 60 No.3
• "Book Review. Alexander S. Leidholt. Standing Before the Shouting Mob: Lenoir Chambers and Virginia's Massive Resistance to Public School Integration."Negro History Bulletin. April-June 1997. Vol. 60 No. 2

Selected Conference Papers and Public Lectures

• 2005. "A House is Not a Home," The Collins Park Bombing of 1959 and Residential Segregation in Delaware, Delaware Public Archives.
• 2005. "A Holiday of Blood: Lynching and Capital Punishment in Delaware, 1860-1930." Delaware Public Archives.
• 2005. "It Happened Here: The 1903 Wilmington Lynching of George White." Dover, Delaware Public Archives.
• 2004. The Lynching of George White in History and Memory, Pennsylvania Historical Association.
• 2003. "State of the Field: Rethinking Black Liberation Struggles." Organization of American Historians, Memphis, Tennessee.
• 2003. "Unequal Justice," Lynching and the Death Penalty in Delaware, 1860-1930. National Council of Black Studies, Atlanta, Georgia.
• 2003. "The Souls of Black Folks and the Sins of Delaware: WEB Dubois, the Lynching of George White and African-American political organizing in Delaware 1903 to 1930." Delaware Humanities Forum, Dover, Delaware.
• 2003. "From Plantation to Prison: Town Hall Meeting." Temple University, Philadelphia, PA.
• 2002. "Beyond Black: Using the Africana Studies Paradigm to Re-conceptualize the African American Experience for the 21st Century-New Audiences, Technology and Methodology." The Association of African-American Museums, Washington, D.C.
• 2002. "The Amistad Case as a Precursor to the Declaration of the Universal Rights of Man." Coppin State University, Baltimore, MD.
• 2002. "The Black Panther Party and the American Historical Perspective." Organization of American Historians, Washington, D.C.
• 2002. "Color, Features and Hair: The Color Line Revisited." Coppin State University, Baltimore, MD.
• 2002. "Lynch Law and Mob Justice: Racial Violence Towards African-Americans from1903-1945." Stetson University, Deland, Florida.
• 2001. "In Defense of Self Defense: The Black Panthers in History and Memory." Stetson University, Deland, Florida.
• 2001. "Rethinking Black Liberation Struggles: The Black Panther Party Reconsidered." Panel Discussion, Delaware State University.
• 2001. Commentator. "Rethinking Black Liberation Struggles." Association for the Study of African Life and History Annual Conference, Washington, D.C.
• 2001. "Black Politics/White Power, Civil Rights, Black Power and Black Panthers in New Haven." Project South Book Forum, Atlanta, GA.
• 2001. "A Legacy of Hate, Lynching in the United States, 1888-1930." Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA.
• 2000. Commentator. "Black Radical Scholarship." Association for the Study of African Life and History Annual Conference, Washington, D.C.
• 2000. "New Haven Nine. 30th Anniversary of the Trial of the Black Panthers in New Haven, CT." Yale University, New Haven, CT.
• 2000. "Servants of the People, the Black Panthers in New Haven, Connecticut." Mid-Atlantic Popular Culture Association, King of Prussia, Pennsylvania.
• 1999. "Without Sanction or Decree, Emancipation and the Civil War." Black History Forum, Villanova University, Villanova, PA.
• 1997. "The Black Panthers, Another Perspective." Association for the Study of African Life and History Annual Conference, Los Angeles, CA.
• 1995. "With a Tattoo of 'Liberty' on his right Forearm: Toward a social history of Black New England Sailors in the Civil War Navy." Race Ethnicity and Power in Maritime America. Mystic Seaport, Mystic, CT. September 14-17, 1995.