Dr. Edda Fields-Black Awarded Pulitzer Prize for Groundbreaking Book on Harriet Tubman’s Combahee River Raid
Fields-Black says it was the largest slave rebellion in U.S. history! Dr. Edda Fields-Black, a Carnegie Mellon University professor, historian, author, and descendant of the very resistance fighters she chronicles, was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in History for COMBEE: Harriet Tubman, the Combahee River Raid and Black Freedom during the Civil War, Carnegie Mellon reports. […]