Leon Litwack, Date of Birth, Place of Birth
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American historian
Date of Birth: 02-Dec-1929
Place of Birth: Santa Barbara, California, United States
Profession: historian
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius 
About Leon Litwack
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- Litwack (born December 2, 1929) is an American historian whose scholarship focuses on slavery, the Reconstruction Era of the United States, and its aftermath into the 20th century.
- He won a National Book Award, the Pulitzer Prize for History, and the Francis Parkman Prize for his 1979 book Been In the Storm So Long: The Aftermath of Slavery.
- He also received a Guggenheim Fellowship. After the spring 2007 semester he retired to emeritus status at the University of California Berkeley, where he received the Golden Apple Award for Outstanding Teaching that year.
- Then he went on a lecture tour that led to his latest book, How Free Is Free?: The Long Death of Jim Crow (2009).
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