Gerald R. Gill: Historian of Boston's Civil Rights movement, was 58
Historian Gerald R. Gill died in his home in Cambridge on July 26. A scholar of 20th-century African-American history, Gill was Tufts University’s most honored and distinguished teacher.
Gerald Gill was born in New Rochelle, N.Y., on Nov. 18, 1948, the son of Robert and Etta Gill. He graduated with a major in history from Lafayette College in 1970, and completed his doctorate in United States history at Howard University, Washington, D.C., in 1985. His scholarly interest in history of African-American opposition to the United States wars in the 20th century began with his dissertation and continued with publications on African-American men’s and women’s opposition to the Vietnam War.
Professor Gill was as a conscientious objector to the Vietnam War. He secured that status with help from U.S. Rep. Shirley Chisholm.
He initiated his more recent research on “The Civil Rights movement in Boston from 1915 to 1970” as a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellow at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture (1997-1998). He has also held Research Fellowships at the W.E.B. DuBois Institute at Harvard University and the Center for Afro-American Studies at the University of California at Los Angeles. In November 2006, he was the keynote speaker for the “conference “Power, and Protest: The Civil Rights Movement in Boston, 1960-1968” at the John F. Kennedy Library in Boston....
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Gerald Gill was born in New Rochelle, N.Y., on Nov. 18, 1948, the son of Robert and Etta Gill. He graduated with a major in history from Lafayette College in 1970, and completed his doctorate in United States history at Howard University, Washington, D.C., in 1985. His scholarly interest in history of African-American opposition to the United States wars in the 20th century began with his dissertation and continued with publications on African-American men’s and women’s opposition to the Vietnam War.
Professor Gill was as a conscientious objector to the Vietnam War. He secured that status with help from U.S. Rep. Shirley Chisholm.
He initiated his more recent research on “The Civil Rights movement in Boston from 1915 to 1970” as a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellow at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture (1997-1998). He has also held Research Fellowships at the W.E.B. DuBois Institute at Harvard University and the Center for Afro-American Studies at the University of California at Los Angeles. In November 2006, he was the keynote speaker for the “conference “Power, and Protest: The Civil Rights Movement in Boston, 1960-1968” at the John F. Kennedy Library in Boston....