Larry Rivers, Ph.D.

Fields of Study: African American Religion; Civil Rights Movement; United States, 1945-present

  • B.A., Public Relations, Florida Agricultural & Mechanical University, 2004
  • M.A., History, Vanderbilt University, 2006
  • Ph.D., History, Vanderbilt University, 2010

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“Militant Reconciling Love”: Howard University’s Rankin Network and Martin Luther King, Jr., Journal of African American History 99 (Summer 2014).

“Leaning on the Everlasting Arms”: Virgil Darnell Hawkins’s Early Life and Entry into the Civil Rights Struggle, Florida Historical Quarterly 86 (Winter 2008).

Florida’s Black Heritage, an introduction to the Florida Black Heritage Trail Magazine, published by the Florida Department of State, 2002.

The Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University College of Law, 1949-2000, a book published by the Florida A&M University Foundation, Inc., 2000.

“They…Exalt Humbug at the Expense of Science and Truth”: Dr. John P. Wall and the Fight Against Yellow Fever in Late-Nineteenth Century Florida, a research article in The Sunland Tribune: Journal of the Tampa Historical Society, 1999.