Ralph Luker

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Ralph Luker (Dr. Ralph E. Luker) is an American historian, teacher, and the author of several books about the American Civil Rights Movement. Dr. Luker is the editor of the Vernon Johns Papers and the founder of the Cliopatria history group blog hosted by George Mason University on its History News Network.

Contents 1 Publications 1.1 Books 1.2 Periodicals 2 Teaching 3 References 4 See also 5 External links

[edit] Publications

[edit] Books

• 2007: (In progress.) Critical edition of the Vernon Johns Papers, The Man Who Started Freedom: The Essays, Sermons and Speeches of Vernon Johns.

• 1996: Historical Dictionary of the Civil Rights Movement, 1941-1995. Ralph E. Luker. The Scarecrow Press, Inc. (1996) Hardcover: ISBN 0-810-83163-5.

• 1996: Black and White Sat Down Together: The Reminiscences of an NAACP Founder. Co-authors Ralph E. Luker, Mary White Ovington, The Feminist Press at CUNY (1996) Hardcover: ISBN 1-558-61099-5.

• 1992: The Papers of Martin Luther King, Jr., Volume I: Called to Serve, January 1929 - June 1951. Editors: Clayborne Carson, Ralph E. Luker, Penny A. Russell. University of California Press (1992) Hardcover: ISBN 978-0-520-07950-2.

• 1994: The Papers of Martin Luther King, Jr., Volume II: Rediscovering Precious Values, July 1951 - November 1955. Editors: Clayborne Carson, Ralph E. Luker, Penny A. Russell, Peter Holloran. University of California Press (1994) Hardcover: ISBN 978-0-520-07951-9.
  • Sponsored by the Martin Luther King, Jr. Center for Nonviolent Social Change with Stanford University and Emory University.

• 1991: The Social Gospel in Black and White: American Racial Reform, 1885-1912. Ralph E. Luker. University of North Carolina Press (1991) Hardcover: ISBN 0-807-81978-6. Paperback (1998): ISBN 0-807-84720-8.
  • Winner of the 1992 Gustavus Myers Center for the Study of Bigotry and Human Rights Outstanding Book Award.

• 1984: A Southern Tradition in Theology and Social Criticism, 1830-1930: The Religious Liberalism and Social Conservatism of James Warley Miles, William Porcher DuBose, and Edgar Gardner Murphy. Mellen Press (1984) Hardcover: ISBN 0-88946-655-6, ISBN 978-0-88946-655-5.

[edit] Periodicals

Luker has published in

• American Quarterly.
• The Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
• Church History: Studies in Christianity and Culture, published since 1932 by The American Society of Church History.
• Journal of American History.
• The Journal of Negro History.
• The New England Quarterly, sponsored by the Massachusetts Historical Society, the Colonial Society of Massachusetts, and Northeastern University, Boston.
• The OAH Newsletter, a quarterly publication of the Organization of American Historians.
• Perspectives, the monthly magazine of the American Historical Association.
• Slavery & Abolition: A Journal of Slave and Post-Slave Studies, published by Routledge.
• South Atlantic Quarterly, published by the Duke University Press.
• Southern Cultures, the quarterly publication of the University of North Carolina Center for the Study of the American South.
• Southern Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal of the South, published by the Southern Studies Institute of Northwestern State University of Louisiana in Natchitoches, Louisiana.
• The Virginia Quarterly Review.

[edit] Teaching

In departments of history:

• Allegheny College
• Antioch College
• Morehouse College

In departments of religion:

• Lincoln University (Pennsylvania)
• Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

[edit] References

• Mellen Press.
• Papers of Martin Luther King, Jr., University of California Press.
• Martin Luther King, Jr. Research and Education Institute at Stanford University.
• University of North Carolina Press.

[edit] See also

• American Civil Rights Movement (1896-1954)
• American Civil Rights Movement (1955-1968)
• William Porcher DuBose
• Edgar Gardner Murphy

[edit] External links

• James Warley Miles Library.
• Ralph Luker website.