Yohuru Williams

Yohuru R. Williams (born in Bridgeport, Connecticut) is an American academic, author and activist. He is a professor of history and dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at Fairfield University and former chief historian of the Jackie Robinson Foundation. Williams is an education activist and noted scholar about the Civil Rights Movement and Black Power movement. Diverse magazine named William one of its Top 10 Emerging Scholars under 40 in 2009.

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