Leon F. Litwack was a Pulitzer Prize-winning American historian who specialized in the history of slavery, the Reconstruction Era, and the legacy of white supremacy in the United States. He served as a professor at the University of California, Berkeley, from 1964 until his retirement in 2007. His scholarship is noted for illuminating 'dark corners' of American history, specifically focusing on the bitter legacies of racial division and segregation. He won the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award for his work 'Been in the Storm So Long: The Aftermath of Slavery' (1979).[1,2,3,4,5,7,8]
