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Which school did David Levering Lewis go to in Jan 1956?
David Levering Lewis David Levering Lewis ( born May 25 , 1936 ) is an American historian , a Julius Silver University Professor , and a professor of history at New York University . He is twice winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography , for part one and part two of his biography of W . E . B . Du Bois ( in 1994 and 2001 , respectively ) . He is the first author to win Pulitzer Prizes for biography for two successive volumes on the same subject . The author of eight books and editor of two more , Lewis concentrates on comparative history with special focus on twentieth-century United States social history and civil rights . His interests include nineteenth-century Africa , twentieth-century France , and Islamic Spain . Life . Lewis was born in 1936 in Little Rock , Arkansas to a middle-class African-American family . His father John Henry Lewis , Sr . had graduated from Morris Brown College in Atlanta , and went on to Yale Divinity School , becoming its first African-American graduate . He also earned an M.A . in sociology from the University of Chicago . He became principal of Dunbar Junior and Senior High School and Junior College in Little Rock . Lewis mother taught high school math in the school . While the family lived in Little Rock , the young Lewis attended parochial school . Lewis attended Wilberforce Preparatory School and Xenia High School after his father became Dean of the Theological School at Wilberforce University in Wilberforce , Ohio . When the family moved to Atlanta after his father became President of Morris Brown College , Lewis attended Booker T . Washington High School in his junior year . He gained early admission at age fifteen to Fisk University in Nashville , Tennessee . He graduated Phi Beta Kappa in 1956 . Lewis briefly attended the University of Michigan Law School but left to attend Columbia University , where he earned his M.A . in history in 1959 . He went to the London School of Economics for his doctorate , earning his Ph.D . in 1962 in modern European and French history . In 1961–1962 , Lewis served in the United States Army as a psychiatric technician and private first class in Landstuhl , Germany . Lewis has three children from his first marriage . Academic career . In 1963 , Lewis lectured at the University of Ghana on medieval African history . After returning to the United States , Lewis taught at Morgan State University , the University of Notre Dame , Howard University , and the University of the District of Columbia from 1970 to 1980 as associate and full professor . Lewis was professor of history at University of California at San Diego from 1980 to 1984 . In 1985 , Lewis joined Rutgers University as the Martin Luther King Jr . Professor of History , where he wrote his Pulitzer Prize-winning two volume-biography of W . E . B . Du Bois and finished writing The Race to Fashoda : European Colonialism and African Resistance in the Scramble for Africa during his 18-year tenure . In spring semester 2001 , Lewis served as distinguished visiting professor in Harvards history department . In 2003 , Lewis was appointed and currently serves as the Julius Silver University Professor and Professor of History at New York University . He has received fellowships from the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences , the National Humanities Center , the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars , the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation , the American Philosophical Society , and the John D . and Catherine T . MacArthur Foundation . Professional career . Lewis is the author of the first academic biography of Martin Luther King Jr. , which was published in 1970 , less than two years after the subjects assassination . His Prisoners of Honor : The Dreyfus Affair was published in 1974 ; The Bicentennial History of the District of Columbia was published in 1976 ; and When Harlem Was in Vogue in 1980 . Lewis wrote his Pulitzer Prize-winning two volume-biography of W . E . B . Du Bois during his 18-year tenure at Rutgers . Besides the two Pulitzer Prizes for his volumes on W . E . B . Du Bois , published in 1994 and 2001 , Lewis in 1994 won the Bancroft Prize and the Francis Parkman Prize for his first volume . In 2001 he also won the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award for his second volume on Du Bois , published that year . He is a former trustee of the National Humanities Center , former commissioner of the National Portrait Gallery , and a former senator of Phi Beta Kappa . Lewis appeared as a historical expert in the 1999 film , directed by Ric Burns for PBS . He was president of the Society of American Historians in 2002 , and is a board member of the magazine The Crisis , published by the NAACP . He is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the American Philosophical Society . He was an Ellen Maria Gorrissen Fellow at the American Academy in Berlin , Germany , in spring 2008 . President Barack Obama awarded him the 2009 National Humanities Medal at the White House on February 25 , 2010 . Lewis delivered the inaugural convocation lecture on September 19 , 2010 at New York University Abu Dhabi in the United Arab Emirates . Books by David Levering Lewis . - ; Univ . of Illinois Press , 1979 . - Prisoners of Honor : The Dreyfus Affair , William Morrow , 1974 . - District of Columbia : A Bicentennial History , W.W . Norton , 1976 . - The Race for Fashoda : European Colonialism and African Resistance in The Scramble for Africa . New York : Weidenfeld and Nicolson , 1987 - David L . Lewis ( ed. ) The Portable Harlem Renaissance Reader , Viking , 1994 , - When Harlem Was in Vogue New York : Knopf , 1981 , - Winner of the 1994 Pulitzer Prize for Biography , and winner also of the Bancroft and Parkman prizes . - Winner of the 2001 Pulitzer Prize for Biography and the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award - ( with Deborah Willis ) A Small Nation of People : W . E . B . Du Bois & African American Portraits of Progress , HarperCollins , 2003 . - Gods Crucible : Islam and the Making of Europe , 570-1215 , ( New York : W . W . Norton and Company , 2008 ) - The Implausible Wendell Willkie : Leadership Ahead of Its Time in Walter Isaacson ( ed. ) Profiles in Leadership ( W . W . Norton & Company , 2011 ) External links . - W.E.B . DuBois as a Historical Novelist Audio recording : David Levering Lewis at the Key West Literary Seminar , 2009 - Pulitzer Prize for Biography : David Levering Lewis , with Gwen Ifill , PBS Newshour , 23 April 2001 - Lewis On How Harlem Became A Place For African Americans , PBS WNET , New York - Interview with Lewis , In Depth , 3 February 2008 , C-SPAN