Leon Litwack

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Leon Frank Litwack (December 2, 1929 – August 5, 2021) was an American historian. His works focused on slavery and the Reconstruction Era of the United States. He won a National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize for History. His best known written work was the 1979 book Been In the Storm So Long: The Aftermath of Slavery. Litwack was born in Santa Barbara, California.

Litwack died on August 5, 2021 in Berkeley, California of bladder cancer, aged 91.[1]

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  1. Risen, Clay (12 August 2021). "Leon Litwack, 91, Dies; Changed How Scholars Portray Black History". New York Times Co. New York Times. Retrieved 12 August 2021.