Dr. Julie Buckner Armstrong on a 2014 visit to Tiananmen Square in Beijing, China

Julie Buckner Armstrong is an internationally known expert in civil rights literature. Her most recent books include the Cambridge Companion to American Civil Rights Literature and Mary Turner and the Memory of Lynching. Dr. Armstrong is Professor of Literature and Cultural Studies in the Department of Verbal and Visual Arts at the University of South Florida in St. Petersburg, where she teaches American, African American, and Women’s literatures.

For more information about Dr. Armstrong’s work, you can go to her Amazon.com author site or click on the links above. She is currently working on a book called Birmingham Stories, about the iconic civil rights movement city where she was born.

You can contact Dr. Armstrong at jba@usfsp.edu.

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