Daniel Sharfstein awarded Alphonse Fletcher Sr. Fellowship by Fletcher FoundationPosted in Articles, History, Law, Media Archive, United States on 2011-07-09 01:54Z by Steven |
Daniel Sharfstein awarded Alphonse Fletcher Sr. Fellowship by Fletcher Foundation
Vanderbilt University Law School
2011-07-06
Daniel J. Sharfstein, associate professor of law, has been awarded an Alphonse Fletcher Sr. Fellowship by the Fletcher Foundation.
Professor Sharfstein’s new book, The Invisible Line: Three American Families and the Secret Journey from Black to White, examines the history of race in the United States through three families who crossed the color line and assimilated into white communities. He will use the Fletcher Fellowship, which provides awards of $50,000 to fund research and support literary and artistic works that contribute to improving race relations and further the broad social goals of the Supreme Court’s landmark 1954 decision in Brown v. Board of Education, to chronicle a group of Southern lawyers who argued against integration in courts during the decade following Brown…
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