Waldo Martin

Waldo E. Martin (born April 19, 1951) is an American historian.

Education He received his BA degree from Duke University and his PhD from University of California, Berkeley.

Career He is the Alexander F. and May T. Morrison Professor of American History and Citizenship at the University of California, Berkeley.

He is a member of the Organization of American Historians.

Works The Mind of Frederick Douglass (1984) Brown v. Board of Education: A Brief History with Documents (1998) No Coward Soldiers: Black Cultural Politics in Postwar America (2005) The World of Martin Luther King, 1929–1968 (editor, 2005) Freedom on My Mind: A History of African Americans, With Documents (co-authored with Deborah Gray White and Mia Bay, 2013) Civil Rights in the United States (co-edited with Patricia Sullivan, 2000) Black Against Empire: The History and Politics of the Black Panther Party (co-authored with Joshua Bloom, 2013)