Jeffrey L. Littlejohn

Jeffrey L. Littlejohn

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Jeffrey L. Littlejohn serves as Professor of History at Sam Houston State University. A native of Dallas, Texas, he completed his undergraduate degree at Belmont University in Nashville, Tennessee, and his MA and PhD at the University of Arkansas. He is the co-author or co-editor of three books: Elusive Equality: Desegregation and Resegregation in Norfolk Public Schools (2012); The Enemy Within Never Did Without: German and Japanese Prisoners of War at Camp Huntsville, Texas, 1942-1945 (2015); and The Seedtime, the Work, and the Harvest: New Perspectives on the Black Freedom Struggle in America (2018). Littlejohn has also published more than a dozen articles with his co-author Charles H. Ford, including: In the Best American Tradition of Freedom, We Defy You: The Radical Partnership of Joseph Jordan, Edward Dawley, and Leonard Holt,” Journal of African American History (2021) and
“The Cabiness Family Lynching: Race, War, and Memory in Walker County, Texas,” Southwestern Historical Quarterly (2018). Littlejohn’s scholarship and digital projects, including Lynching in Texas, have received funding from the National Foundation for the Humanities and Humanities Texas. He can be reached on the web at: http://studythepast.org.