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Senior Fellow
Areas of Interest: African American History, Civil Rights Studies, 20th Century U.S. Social History, Oral History
Biography
Charles McKinney is a founding member and Senior Fellow of
the Jamestown Project. Dr. McKinney is
an Assistant Professor of history at Rhodes
College in Memphis, TN.
In 1990 Mr. McKinney won the First Year Teacher of the Year award in the
Compton (CA) Unified
School District. He
subsequently spent five years as the partnership manager for Public Allies, an
Americorps leadership development program, and three years organizing curricula
and performing other tasks in juvenile justice diversion programs. Dr. McKinney
serves on the advisory board for several non-profit organizations, including
the Grassroots Fund and North Carolina Public Allies. Dr. McKinney’s current
scholarly focus is an examination of the civil rights movement from the
perspective of the local, working class insurgency. (Santa Barbara, CA;
B.A., Morehouse College; Ph.D., Duke University)
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