We sat down with Peter Levy to discuss the History of York City and the civil uprising of the 1960's and beyond below is his bio pulled for his web page and his book "The Great Uprising" is available to purchase through amazon.

Bio pulled from - https://plevy9.wixsite.com/peterlevy

I'm a professor of history at York College, where I have taught courses on Recent America, the Civil Rights Movement, Women in the U.S., Environmental History, and Race & Justice. I have written over a dozen books, including The Great Uprising: Race Riots in Urban America during the 1960s (Cambridge Univ. Pr. 2018), Civil War on Race Street: The Civil Rights Movement in in Cambridge, Maryland (Univ. of Florida Pr. 2003) and The New Left and Labor (Univ. of Illinois Pr. 1994). I am also the co-editor with Jeffrey Littlejohn and Reginald Ellis of The Seedtime, the Work, and the Harvest: New Perspectives on the Black Freedom Struggle in America (Univ. of Florida Pr. 2018) and the co-author with Randy Roberts, Alan Taylor and Emma J. Lapsansky-Warner of United States History (Prentice Hall, rev. ed. 2016).

https://youtu.be/A2lXzv0q0yk