Kathryn Schumaker is a historian and Senior Lecturer in American Studies at the University of Sydney. I’m interested in telling the stories of how the law shapes the lives of ordinary people. My first book, Troublemakers: Students’ Rights and Racial Justice in the Long 1960s, explores how student protests against racial discrimination at school led to the establishment of the constitutional rights of all public-school students in the US.
My second book, Tangled Fortunes: The Hidden History of Interracial Marriage in the Segregated South, tells the stories of couples whose marriages and family lives defied Jim Crow.
Books in order of publication:
Troublemakers: Students’ Rights and Racial Justice in the Long 1960s – 2019
Tangled Fortunes: The Hidden History of Interracial Marriage in the Segregated South – 2025
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