William Loren Katz

William Loren Katz

William Loren Katz is an American educator, historian, and author of many books on African-American history, including a number of titles for young adult readers. He is particularly noted for his extensive writings on the 500-year history of relations between African-Americans and Native Americans in the New World.

Biography

A graduate of both Syracuse University (1950, with a BA in history) and New York University (1952, with an MA in Secondary Education), Katz taught in the New York City and State secondary education systems for 14 years, and has served as a consultant for numerous boards of education nationwide.

Katz's "Education and Books" column has appeared in the New York Daily Challenge since 1986, and he has hosted an interview program on Pacifica Radio station WBAI-FM in New York. He was the recipient of the 2000 White Dove Peace Award from the White Dove-Imani-Rainbow Lodge of Whitehall, Ohio.

ee also

* Black Indians
* Black Seminoles
* Native Americans in the United States
* Native American tribes
* One-Drop Rule
* Zambo

elected Bibliography

* "Black Indians: A Hidden Heritage" (1997, Simon Pulse) ISBN 0-689-80901-8
* "The Black West: A Documentary and Pictorial History of the African American Role in the Westward Expansion of the United States" (1996, Touchstone) ISBN 0-684-81478-1
* "Black Pioneers: An Untold Story" (1999, Atheneum) ISBN 0-689-81410-0
* "Breaking The Chains" (1998, Simon Pulse) ISBN 0-689-81919-6
* "Black Women of the Old West" (1995, Atheneum) ISBN 0-689-31944-4
* "Black Legacy: A History of New York's African Americans" (1997, Atheneum) ISBN 0-689-31913-4
* "Eyewitness: A Living Documentary of the African American Contribution to American History" (1995, Touchstone) ISBN 0-684-80199-X
* "The Cruel Years: American Voices at the Dawn of the Twentieth Century" (with Laurie Lehman, 2001, Beacon Press) ISBN 1-891843-06-0
* "Time Ghost" (1995, Margaret K. McElderry) ISBN 0-689-80027-4

External links

* [http://www.williamlkatz.com/ Official Site]
* [http://www.simonsays.com/content/destination.cfm?tab=1&pid=350334 Simon & Schuster site - Books by William Loren Katz]
* [http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=03/04/07/0339219 Democracy Now! - "Eyewitness" interview with William Loren Katz]

Essays by Katz

* [http://www.counterpunch.org/katz10192004.html "What Goes Around Comes Around", Tuesday October 19, 2004]
* [http://www.counterpunch.org/katz08242004.html "The Meaning of Hugo Chávez", Tuesday, August 24, 2004]
* [http://www.counterpunch.org/katz04282004.html "Iraq, the US and an Old Lesson", Wednesday April 28th, 2004]
* [http://www.hartford-hwp.com/archives/41/393.html "Justice and African Seminoles", March 15, 2001]
* [http://hnn.us/articles/4915.html "We Are Repeating the Mistake We Made in the Philippines 100 Years Ago", May 3, 2004]


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