THE RESEARCH of Associate Professor of History Caroline S. Emmons focuses on the history of the United States in the mid-20th century, especially the civil-rights movement and the impact of the Cold War on American society.

In 2005 Emmons participated in a National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Seminar for College and University Faculty on “Human Rights in the Era of Globalization,” held at Columbia University. At the 2006 annual meeting of the Southern Association of Women Historians, she presented a paper on “Ruby Hurley, the NAACP and the Crisis of Victory.” Another paper, “Th e Next Civil Rights Movement? A Comparison of the African American and Roma Freedom Struggles,” was presented at Norfolk State University’s “Voices From Within the Veil” Conference, which was held in conjunction with the Jamestown 400th Anniversary Commemoration program. At the annual meeting of the Florida Conference of Historians, Emmons gave a paper on “New Florida, Old Florida: School Segregation, Desegregation, Resegregation in Florida, 1959- 2000.”

Forthcoming are two essays by Emmons: “A State Divided: Th e Struggle to Implement the Brown Decision in Florida, 1954-1970” in Implementing Brown v. Board of Education: School Desegregation in Selected States, 1954- (University of Arkansas Press) and “African American Women in the Civil Rights Movement in Virginia” in a collection published by Texas A&M Press. In addition, Emmons is editing a collection of essays entitled Perspectives in American Social History: The Cold War and McCarthy Eras.

Emmons holds the bachelor’s, master’s, and doctoral degrees from Florida State University; she came to the College in 1998 and was promoted to the rank of associate professor in 2005.

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