Leonard N. Moore
Associate Professor


221A Himes Hall
578-4458
lmoore7@lsu.edu

COURSES TAUGHT: Introduction to African-American History; Civil Rights Movement; Black Nationalism in America; Hip-Hop and American Culture
CURRENT RESEARCH INTERESTS:   African-American Urban History; Hip-Hop and American Culture
INTERESTED IN DIRECTING THESES AND DISSERTATIONS ON:  African-American History; Urban History


BRIEF VITA

Education:  

B.A. Jackson State University, 1993

M.A. Cleveland State University, 1994

Ph.D. The Ohio State University, 1998

Notable Articles: 

"Carl B. Stokes: Mayor of Cleveland," in Black Mayors in America: Race and Power in the American City, eds., Jeffrey Adler and David Colburn, University of Illinois Press, 2001

"Class Conflict Over Residential Space in an African-American Community: Cleveland's Lee-Seville Public Housing Controversy," in Ohio History vol. 111: Winter-Spring 2002

"The School Desegregation Crisis of Cleveland, Ohio, 1963-1964: The Catalyst for Black Political Power in a Northern City," Journal of Urban History, Jan. 2002

"Carl Stokes and the Limits of Black Political Power," in Builders of Ohio, eds., Warren Van Tine and Michael Pierce, Ohio State University Press, 2002)

"African-American Racial Identity and Sport," Sport, Education and Society, vol. 7, No. 2 (2004), with Louis Harrison and C. Keith Harrison.

"Ear to the Streets: The Race, Hip-Hop and Sports Learning Community at Louisiana State University," Journal of Black Studies (forthcoming January 2006), with Louis Harrison and Lyn Evans

About Carl B. Stokes and the Rise of Black Political Power  

Books:  

Carl B. Stokes and the Rise of Black Political Power, University of Illinois Press, 2002