History Professor Kate Masur is a finalist for the 2022 Pulitzer Prize in History for her book Until Justice Be Done: America’s First Civil Rights Movement, from the Revolution to Reconstruction.
Before the Civil War, the United States implemented restrictive laws against African Americans focused on limiting their Constitutional rights. However, determined citizens would eventually start to fight against these laws and protest the treatment of Black Americans.
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.
Learn more about Professor Masur and her Pulitzer Prize nomination here.
“A sweeping and resonant consideration of abolitionist work, begun decades before the Civil War, that eventually became America’s first civil rights movement–an account that is also a deep study of federalism in jurisprudence, politics and history.” – Pulitzer Board
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