He's best known for his 1995 book, "Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong," and wrote several others, including "Sundown Towns: A Hidden Dimension of American Racism," about communities where white people used the threat of violence to force Black people, Jews, and other oppressed groups to leave before nightfall. Loewen was doggedly devoted to righting misinformation about the struggle for Black freedom in the South. The cover of the Spring/Summer 2000 issue of Southern Exposure, where this piece was first published. He went on to teach at historically Black Tougaloo College in Jackson, Mississippi, as well as at predominantly white University of Vermont and Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C. An Illinois native, he attended Mississippi State University and earned a doctorate in sociology from Harvard with a dissertation on Mississippi's Chinese American community. Loewen died from cancer this month at age 79.
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