Leon Litwack

Leon Frank Litwack was an American historian whose scholarship focused on slavery, the Reconstruction Era of the United States, and its aftermath into the 20th century. He won a National Book Award, the Pulitzer Prize for History, and the Francis Parkman Prize for his 1979 book Been In the Storm So Long: The Aftermath of Slavery. He also received a Guggenheim Fellowship. ^{Leon Litwack, American historian and author (d. 2021)}

2 December 1929

Born on the same birth date (2 December 1929): Dan Jenkins

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