Guest post written in conjunction with the start of the Organization of American Historians's annual conference #OAH21, by David A. Varel, author of The Scholar and the Struggle: Lawrence Reddick's Crusade for Black History and Black Power Black historian and activist Lawrence Reddick (1910-1995), the subject of my new UNC book, died over a quarter century ago, but his legacy lives on in innumerable ways. The latest involves helping the American Historical Association (AHA) and the Organization of American Historians (OAH) reckon with the past and present racism of the American historical profession. In the...