“Reverend
C.L. Franklin and Black Political
Consciousness:
From Mississippi to Detroit”
Nick Salvatore, Professor of
American Studies
Cornell University
Nick Salvatorelink
is the Maurice
and Hinda Neufeld Founders Professor
of Industrial Relations and
professor of American studies
at Cornell University.He received
his Ph.D. from the University
of California, Berkeley in 1977.
He is author of Eugene V.
Debs: Citizen and Socialist
(1982), which received
the Bancroft Prize and the John
H. Dunning Prize, and We
All Got History: The Memory
Books of Amos Webber (1996),
which received the New England
History Association’s
Outstanding Book Prize. He has
recently published Singing
in a Strange Land : C. L. Franklin,
the Black Church, and the Transformation
of America, a biography
of Reverend C. L. Franklin,
an influential preacher, committed
social activist, and longtime
pastor of Detroit’s New
Bethel Baptist Church. Mr. Salvatore
is currently participating in
the 2004-2005 OAH Distinguished
Lectureship Program.
For more information on Rev. C.L.
Frankclin check out our weblinks
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