20th-century U.S.; African-American and Southern; civil rights movement

Professor, Department Head
Ph.D. Virginia 1987

Office: 202 LeConte
Office Hours: No office hours
Phone: (706) 542-2507

rapratt@uga.edu

Robert A. Pratt's articles and essays have appeared in The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, Rutgers Law Journal, The Georgia Journal of Southern Legal History, and other journals and magazines. He is the recipient of several national fellowships and grants, including a Danforth Foundation Fellowship (1980-1984), a Spencer Foundation Grant (1990), and a Brown Foundation Fellowship (1995). He is the author of The Color of Their Skin: Education and Race in Richmond, Virginia, 1954-89 (Virginia, 1992) which received an Outstanding Book Award from the Gustavus Myers Center for the Study of Human Rights. His new book on the desegregation of the University of Georgia is entitled We Shall Not Be Moved: The Desegregation of the University of Georgia (U of Georgia Press, August 2002).

Research and Teaching Interests

Selected Publications

Courses Taught

HIST3102: Modern African American Experience [Syllabus]

HIST4990: Senior Seminar [Syllabus]

HIST6000: Studies in American History [Syllabus]

HIST7002: Colloquium in United States History: 1865 to the present [Syllabus]

Dissertations Supervised

Roady-Lawson, Jennifer, "Building Schools, Constructing Race, Resisting White Supremacy: Education in Leon County, Florida after Brown" (In Progress)

Luckett, Robert, "Yapping Dogs: Joe T. Patterson and the Limits of Massive Resistance" (2009)

MA Theses Supervised

Young, Paige Eugenia, "Unknown martyr: the murder of Willie Edwards, Jr., and civil rights violence in Montgomery, Alabama" (2003)

Rose, Travis Jerrold, "Black Newspaper Reactions to the East St. Louis Race Riot of 1917: Region, Political Thought, and Alliances" (2001)

Pye, David Kenneth, "All About the Town: The History of African-American Lawyers in Atlanta" (2001)

Eric, Marshall, "Transforming the Classical Civil Rights Movement: Martin Luther King, Jr., The Poor People's Campaign, and the Problem of Community in Resurrection City" (1999)

Merrill, Jonathan Neal, "Jimmy Carter, Race Relations and the Judicial Selection Process" (1996)

Estes, Stephen Sandford, "Confronting the 'Great White Father': Paternalism, Gender, and the Civil Rights Movements in Memphis and Charleston" (1996)

Scrade, Alan Bradley, ""Bad" Baker, "Terrible" Terrell, and Pritchett's Albany: SNCC and the Interplay Between Rural and Urban Civil Rights Movement in Southwest Georgia" (1995)

Williams, Herbert Pierce, ""The Desegregation of the University of Georgia: Why the Peace was Kept"" (1994)

Strain, Christopher Barry, "Nonviolence in the Civil Rights Movement: Three Exceptions" (1994)

Brown, Stanford Maxwell, "Equalization, Freedom of Choice, and Sex Segregation: School Desegration in Taylor and Baker Counties, Georgia" (1994)

Smith, James Oliver, "Out of the Smoldering Ashes: Black Political Incorporation in the Wake of the 1980 Miami Riot." (1993)