PETER B. LEVY, PhD

I'm a recently retired professor of history.  For over 30 years I taught courses on the Civil Rights Movement, Environmental History, and Race & Justice.  I have written over a dozen books, including The Great Uprising: Race Riots in Urban America during the 1960s (Cambridge Univ. Pr. 2018), Civil War on Race Street: The Civil Rights Movement in  in Cambridge, Maryland (Univ. of Florida Pr. 2003) and The New Left and Labor (Univ. of Illinois Pr. 1994).  I am also the co-editor with Jeffrey Littlejohn and Reginald Ellis of  The Seedtime, the Work, and the Harvest: New Perspectives on the Black Freedom Struggle in America (Univ. of Florida Pr. 2018) and the co-author with Randy Roberts, Alan Taylor and Emma J. Lapsansky-Warner of  United States History (Prentice Hall, rev. ed. 2016).  Since retiring, I have spent much of my time writing historical dramas for the theater.  One of these plays, "Mrs. Richardson," dramatizes the life of the civil rights shero Gloria Richardson (see photo of me with her to the left).