David W. Southern is Professor of History at Westminster College in Fulton, Missouri. He received his B.A. at Alderson-Broaddus College and his M.A. and Ph.D., respectively, at Wake Forest and Emory Universities. He has authored three books on black-white relations in the United States: The Malignant Heritage: Yankee Progressives and the Negro Questions, 1901--1914 (1968), which won the William P. Lyons Master's Essay Award in 1967; Gunnar Myrdal and Black-White Relations: The Use and Abuse of An American Dilemma, 1944--1969 (1987); and John LaFarge and the Limits of Catholic Interracialism, 1911--1963 (1996). The Myers Center Award for the Study of Human Rights in North America cited the books on Myrdal and LaFarge as outstanding works on intolerance in North America. Professor Southern was awarded a Fellowship by the National Endowment for the Humanities in 1982--1983.
