obituaries

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• SOURCE: The New Yorker
  7/19/2020
  

  The Essential and Enduring Strength of John Lewis

  by Jelani Cobb

  "Lewis, like his peers Andrew Young, Marion Barry, and Eleanor Holmes Norton, transitioned into elected office as the post from which he would undertake this work. It was not an easy undertaking."

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• SOURCE: Boston Globe
  7/5/2020
  

  MIT Professor Tunney Lee, an Architect, Urban Planner, and Historian of Chinatown, Dies at 88

  An architecture professor who taught at MIT and the Chinese University of Hong Kong is remembered as a historian of Chinese American community and an advocate for including the public in the process of planning.

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• SOURCE: Florida State University News
  6/22/2020
  

  Legendary FSU History Professor Jim Jones Dies

  "Jim used to laugh that students would approach him to say that he’d taught their parents, to which Jim would reply, ‘and how’s your grandmother/grandfather, whom I also taught?’"

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• SOURCE: USA Today
  6/21/2020
  

  Prize-Winning Historian Robert D. Richardson, Who Wrote About American Thinkers, Dies At Age 86

  The biographer and intellectual historian was the winner of the Bancroft Prize in 2007 for William James: In the Maelstrom of American Modernism.

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• SOURCE: France 24
  6/21/2020
  

  Israeli Historian Zeev Sternhell, Advocate for Palestinian Rights, Dies at 85

  Hebrew University president Asher Cohen hailed Sternhell, a professor emeritus there who was awarded the prestigious Israel Prize for political science in 2008, as "among the most important researchers" to emerge from the institution.

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  6/21/2020
  

  Sally Banes, Distinguished Dance Critic and Historian, Dies at 69

  Her writing paired a vivid and inquisitive approach with a lack of agenda and a belief that dance was a crucial part of cultural history.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  5/26/2020
  

  William Small, Who Made CBS Washington Bureau a TV News Powerhouse, Dies at 93

  William Small built CBS News into a top journalistic organization that covered the biggest stories of the 1960s and 1970s. 

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  5/21/2020
  

  Rhody McCoy, Key Figure in New York’s School Wars, Dies at 97

  McCoy headed the Brooklyn district where teacher transfers in 1968 sparked a bitter, racially-charged dispute over union seniority and community control.

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  5/24/2020
  

  June Willenz, Champion of Women in the Military, Dies at 95

  She didn’t serve in the military herself. But she saw the armed services denying equal benefits to female veterans, and she crusaded to make a difference.

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  5/16/2020
  

  David Carter, a Historian of Stonewall, Is Dead at 67

  David Carter's research clarified conflicting accounts of the events of June 28, 1969 and helped ensure that the portion of Greenwich Village surrounding the Stonewall Inn would be protected by the National Register of Historic Places.

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  5/14/2020
  

  Richard Gilder, Donor to Parks, Museum and History, Dies at 87

  Richard Gilder used his fortune to advance many passion projects, including the refurbishment of New York's Central Park and the preservation of primary documents important to the study of American history. 

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• SOURCE: Fox Carolina
  5/12/2020
  

  Carolyn Reidy, President and CEO of Simon & Schuster, Dies at 71

  Carolyn Reidy helped bring the writings of historians including David Blight and David McCullough to a wide readership.  

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  5/11/2020
  

  Barbara Babcock, a Force for Women in the Law, Dies at 81

  “I would not hold the good job I have today were it not for Barbara,” Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg said.

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  5/10/2020
  

  Little Richard: An Ecstasy You Couldn’t Refuse

  Little Richard was a challenge to 1950s proprieties: to segregation, to musical decorum, to chastity, to straightness.

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  5/8/2020
  

  Ian Whitcomb, Rocker Turned Pop Music Historian, Dies at 78

  Ian Whitcomb forsook pop stardom to study and preserve forms of music popular before rock and roll.   

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• SOURCE: PinkNews
  5/9/2020
  

  David Carter, The Gay Historian Who Wrote The ‘Definitive History’ Of The Stonewall Uprising, Has Died Of A Heart Attack Aged 67

  The gay historian wrote Stonewall: The Riots That Sparked the Gay Revolution, which was published in 2004 and cemented Carter as the leading expert on the riots outside New York’s Stonewall Inn in June 1969.

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• SOURCE: LAist
  5/4/2020
  

  The Legacy of Bobby Lee Verdugo, A Leader Of East LA Walkouts

  Verdugo, who became one of the founders of the Chicano student movement and spent much of his life mentoring youth, died Friday. He was 69.

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• SOURCE: The Way of Improvement Leads Home
  5/3/2020
  

  Remembering John Murrin

  The early American historian passed away on May 2 after contracting coronavirus.

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• SOURCE: WCMU
  5/1/2020
  

  'Fresh Air' Remembers Jazz Archivist And Historian Michael Cogswell

  Michael Cogswell was a musician and historian who managed the Louis Armstrong House Museum in Corona, Queens. He was interviewed by Fresh Air in 2001.

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• SOURCE: Jewish Telegraphic Agency
  4/28/2020
  

  Alan Shestack, Influential Museum Director And Art History Scholar, Dies At 81

  Shestack's decades-long career included top leadership roles at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, the Yale University Art Gallery and the National Gallery of Art.