Richard Pierce
John Cardinal O'Hara, C.S.C., Associate Professor of History and Chair of Africana Studies
Office: 219 O’Shaughnessey Hall
Phone: 574-631-5666
Email: pierce.15@nd.edu
Areas of Expertise
African-American, urban, and civil rights history
Specializing in social and political protest in urban environments, Pierce is the author of “Polite Protest: The Political Economy of Race in Indianapolis, 1920-1970,” which chronicles the protest methods used by blacks in Indianapolis that set the city apart from Chicago, Milwaukee and Detroit. He served as a consultant for the “Faith and Community Initiative” of the Project on Religion and Urban Culture at POLIS Research Center and “For Gold and Glory,” an award-winning documentary that depicted the African-American automobile racing league of the 1920s. Pierce has published articles and essays in the Journal of Urban History, The State of Indiana History 2000 and the Chicago Tribune. His essay, “In Pursuit of Civil Discourse in the Academy,” was featured in Diverse Magazine, formerly known as Black Issues in Higher Education.
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Historian writes book on Indy’s “polite” civil rights protests
