Professor Kate Masur’s book, “Until Justice Be Done” wins the American Historical Association’s Littleton-Griswold Prize
October 31, 2022
History Professor Kate Masur’s book Until Justice Be Done: America’s First Civil Rights Movement, from the Revolution to Reconstruction has won the American Historical Association’s Littleton-Griswold Prize as the best book on American law and society, broadly defined.
Masur’s work details the events leading up to the 1866 Civil Rights Act and the Fourteenth Amendment — pieces of legislation that marked the inception of the first civil rights movement.
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