Peter B. Levy

I'm a professor of history at York College, where I have taught courses on Recent America, the Civil Rights Movement, Women in the U.S., 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).