Russell J. Rickford: Difference between revisions

{{short description|American scholar and author}}

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'''Russell John Rickford''' (born {{circa|1975}}<!-- listed as 28 years old in article written Feb 2004 --><ref name=Nakao>{{cite web |url=https://www.sfgate.com/living/article/Pride-and-prejudice-A-young-author-looks-back-2792483.php |title=Pride and prejudice / A young author looks back at the tragedy -- and triumph -- of Betty Shabazz's life |last=Nakao |first=Annie |date=February 22, 2004 |work=[[San Francisco Chronicle]] |access-date=November 17, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230406084440/https://www.sfgate.com/living/article/Pride-and-prejudice-A-young-author-looks-back-2792483.php |archive-date=April 6, 2023 |url-status=live}}</ref>) is an American scholar and activist who is an associate professor in the [[Cornell University Department of History|History Department]] at [[Cornell University]]. He has written the only in-depth biography on [[Betty Shabazz]]. Rickford's research focuses on the black radical tradition and on black liberal culture after [[World War II]]. He lectures on American social and political history, among other subjects.<ref name=Cornell>{{cite web |title=Russell Rickford {{!}} Department of History |url=https://history.cornell.edu/russell-rickford |website=history.cornell.edu |access-date=18 November 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231101202526/https://history.cornell.edu/russell-rickford |archive-date=November 1, 2023 |url-status=live}}</ref>