LaWanda Cox

LaWanda Fenlason Cox (1909-2005) was a pioneering historian of the American Civil War and the period of Reconstruction. Cox was born on September 24, 1909 in Aberdeen, Washington. She received her Bachelors at the University of Oregon in 1931, her masters from Smith College (1934) and her Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley in 1941. Cox studied at Smith College with Merle Curti a social historian, and at Berkeley with John Schuster Taylor an economist. She was the author of several major works including, "Politics, Principle, and Prejudice 1865-1866: Dilemma of Reconstruction America" (1963) which she wrote with her husband, John H. Cox. She also wrote on her own: "Reconstruction: The Negro, and the New South" (1973), and also "Lincoln and Black Freedom: A Study of Presidential Leadership" (1981). She died on February 2, 2005.

References

* [http://www.historians.org/Perspectives/Issues/2005/0505/0505mem2.cfm In Memoriam: LaWanda Fenlason Cox]
* Cox, LaWanda. "Lincoln and Black Freedom: A Study in Presidential Leadership." Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 1981.
* Cox, LaWanda, and John H. "Politics, Principle, and Prejudice 1865-1866: Dilemma of Reconstruction America." New York: Free Press, 1963.
* Cox, LaWanda. "Reconstruction: The Negro, and the New South." Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 1973.