Harvard Sitkoff

Harvard Sitkoff (January 4th, 1940 – January 9th, 2025^[1]) was an American historian.

He lived in Durham, New Hampshire.^[2]

He was a professor emeritus of history at the University of New Hampshire.^[2][3] He contributed to the 1974 Encyclopedia of American Biography, most notably with an entry on Muhammad Ali,^[4] and also wrote on the politics of Martin Luther King Jr.^[5] Describing that period, Sitkoff called the summer of 1967 the "most intense and destructive wave of racial violence the nation had ever witnessed".^[6]

• The Struggle for Black Equality: 1954-1992
• King: Pilgrimage to the Mountaintop
• A New Deal for Blacks: The Emergence of Civil Rights as a National Issue: The Depression Decade
• The Struggle for Black Equality
• Perspectives on Modern America: Making Sense of the Twentieth Century
• Fifty Years Later: New Deal Evaluated
• Toward Freedom Land: The Long Struggle for Racial Equality in America

• Official website

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