Andrew B. Lewis, assistant professor of history at Wesleyan College, is a specialist in the history of the American civil rights movement. His most recent book is The Shadows of Youth: The Remarkable Journey of the Civil Rights Generation (Hill & Wang, October 2009).

      Lewis is also the author and editor of numerous publications, including Gonna Sit at the Welcome Table: A Documentary History of the Civil Rights Movement (by Julian Bond) (1994) and The Moderates’ Dilemma: Massive Resistance to School Desegregation in Virginia (1998). He earned a Ph.D. and master’s degree from the University of Virginia and taught previously at Hamilton College, the University of Richmond, and SUNY Binghamton.

Praise for THE SHADOWS OF YOUTH

”A remarkable book.” —Dallas Morning News

“With deep admiration and rigorous scholarship, historian Lewis (Gonna Sit at the Welcome Table) revisits the "ragtag band" of young men and women who formed the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee. . . . Highly readable history. . . .  With his eloquent book, he offers a deserved tribute.”

—Publishers Weekly