Lawrence D. Reddick

Lawrence D. Reddick (1910-1995) was an American historian. He worked as a professor at Dillard University. Reddick was also a professor at Alabama State College and Kentucky State College. He also taught at Temple University and was the second currator of the Schomburg Collection of Negro Literature at the New York Public Library.

Biography

Reddick received his Ph.D. from the University of Chicago in 1939.

Reddick was one of the supervisors of a 1930s program to gather remembrances for African-Americans who had been born in slavery. Reddick wrote a biography of Martin Luther King, Jr. that was published in 1958.

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* http://www.uncpress.unc.edu/browse/page/319
* http://books.google.com/books?id=TyM9WgZChF0C&pg=PA296&lpg=PA296&dq=%22Lawrence+D.+Reddick%22&source=web&ots=r0rhW4YLFT&sig=5IfkfwsDLmpUSltkNQt6Q6fQvQQ&hl=en&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=5&ct=result
* http://books.google.com/books?id=TU_HozbJSC8C&pg=RA1-PA125&lpg=RA1-PA125&dq=%22Lawrence+D.+Reddick%22&source=web&ots=TVo88BCGRW&sig=PaLgTe8Nvgkn_2ihaoIbDm5HEdA&hl=en&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=8&ct=result#PRA1-PA126,M1
* http://magazine.uchicago.edu/9512/9512BOBDeaths.html

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