Dr. Patricia Sullivan

Professor of History, University of South Carolina

Dr. Patricia Sullivan specializes in modern United States history, with an emphasis on African American history, race relations, and the history of the Civil Rights Movement. Her book publications include, Lift Every Voice: The NAACP and the Making of the Civil Rights Movement, is the first history of the NAACP’s formative decades. Other books include: Days of Hope: Race and Democracy in the New Deal Era, Civil Rights in the United States, a 2-volume encyclopedia, and many others. Since 1997, she has codirected an NEH Summer Institute at Harvard's W.E.B. Du Bois Institute on "Teaching the History of the Civil  Rights Movement."