Willie J. Griffin

Publications

  • “News and Views of the Postal Service: Trezzvant W. Anderson and Black Labor
    Journalism in the New Deal Era,” in Labor Studies in Working-Class History (March
    2018)
  • Book Review: A Fool’s Errand: Creating the National Museum of African American
    History and Culture in the Age of Bush, Obama, and Trump, in North Carolina
    Historical Review (2022)

Research Interests

20th Century African American Public and Intellectual History; Civil Rights Movement and Black Print Culture History; African American Military and Labor History; African American Biography and Black Charlotte History

Courses Taught

  • HIST 1161 Survey of US History Since 1865
  • LBST 2101 Documenting the Modern Black Freedom Struggle from Charlotte, NC
  • HIST 3000 African American History as Public History
  • HIST 6310 Museum Studies

Book Project

“Come Out Fighting”: Trezzvant W. Anderson, the Black Press, and the Twentieth Century
Black Struggle for Freedom in the New South (Under Contract with Vanderbilt University Press) Read more >>

Education

Ph.D., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2016