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Matthew F. Delmont

Matthew F. Delmont
Matthew F. Delmont is the Sherman Fairchild Distinguished Professor of History at Dartmouth College. A Guggenheim Fellow and expert on African American history and the history of civil rights, he is the author of four books: Black Quotidian, Why Busing Failed, Making Roots, and The Nicest Kids in Town. His work has also appeared in The New York Times, The Atlantic, The Washington Post, and several academic journals, and on NPR. Originally from Minneapolis, Minnesota, Delmont earned his BA from Harvard University and his MA and PhD from Brown University.


Reading Langston Hughes’s Wartime Reporting From the Spanish Civil War

Matthew F. Delmont on How Black Americans Warned the World of Fascism
November 2, 2022  By Matthew F. Delmont
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