Shannon King

Shannon King is Associate Professor of History and director of the Black Studies program at Fairfield University where he teaches courses on the Black Freedom Struggle, Urban and Social History, Gender and Women’s History, carceral studies, and racial capitalism. His work has appeared in the Journal of African American History, Journal of Urban History, and Reviews in American History; and essays in Understanding and Teaching the Civil Rights Movement, The Strange Careers of the Jim Crow North, and Escape from New York! He is the author of Whose Harlem Is This, Anyway?: Community and Grassroots Activism during the New Negro Era and The Politics of Safety: The Black Struggle for Police Accountability in La Guardia’s New York.