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Шаблон:Short description Шаблон:Other uses Шаблон:Infobox academic Clarence Taylor is professor emeritus of History at Baruch College in New York City and author of books on racism, religion, and civil rights in 20th-century America. [1][2][3][4]

Background

Clarence Taylor was born in Brooklyn, New York. He attended the East New York elementary school and Canarsie High School in Brooklyn. He received a BA from Brooklyn College and MA from New York University. In 1992, he received a doctorate in American history from the Graduate Center of the City University of New York.[1][2]

Career

Taylor began his career as a teacher in the New York city public school system. He spent eight years as special education teacher at Junior High School 278 at Marine Park (Brooklyn). He then became a social studies teacher at James Madison High School.[1][2]

In 1991, Taylor became a professor at Le Moyne College in Syracuse, New York. In 1996, he joined the history department and African-New World Studies Program at Florida International University. In 2004 he was named Professor of History and Chair of the Department of Black and Latino Studies at Baruch College.[1][2] In 2017 he became Professor emeritus.

Taylor researches recent civil rights and black power movements, African-American religion, and the modern history of New York City.[1][2]

In 2012, Taylor appeared in the documentary film Changing Faces of Harlem.[5]

In 2018, Taylor appeared in the PBS documentary film "The Woman in the Iron Coffin" [6]

Awards

Works

Taylor has written and edited books and also articles for journals and magazines including Jacobin.[7]

Books:

  • The Black Churches of Brooklyn from the 19th Century to the Civil Rights Era (1994)[8]
  • Knocking At Our Own Door: Milton A. Galamison and the Struggle to Integrate New York City Schools (1997)[9]
  • Black Religious Intellectuals: The Fight for Equality from Jim Crow to the 21st Century (2002)[10]
  • Reds at the Blackboard: Communism, Civil Rights and the New York City Teachers Union (2011)[11]
  • Fight the Power: African Americans and the Long History of Police Brutality in New York City (2018)[12]

Books edited:

  • Civil Rights Since 1787: A Reader in the Black Struggle (2000) (co-editor)
  • Civil Rights in New York City: From World War II to the Giuliani Era (2011)[13]

See also

References

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External sources

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