Philip Dray

Philip Dray is the author of several books of American cultural and political history, including At the Hands of Persons Unknown: The Lynching of Black America , which won the Robert F. Kennedy Book Award and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize; There Is Power in a Union: The Epic Story of Labor in America ; and Capitol Men: The Epic Story of Reconstruction Through the Lives of the First Black Congressmen . He is an adjunct professor in the Journalism + Design Department at Eugene Lang...See more

Philip Dray is the author of several books of American cultural and political history, including At the Hands of Persons Unknown: The Lynching of Black America , which won the Robert F. Kennedy Book Award and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize; There Is Power in a Union: The Epic Story of Labor in America ; and Capitol Men: The Epic Story of Reconstruction Through the Lives of the First Black Congressmen . He is an adjunct professor in the Journalism + Design Department at Eugene Lang College of Liberal Arts. He lives in Brooklyn, New York. See less