Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham

Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham is an American academic and historian whose work centers on African American religion and women's history. She is a professor at Harvard University, and her book Righteous Discontent: The Women's Movement in the Black Baptist Church, 1880–1920 won several awards, while she received the 2014 National Humanities Medal. Her other books include African American Lives, a biographical reference to notable African Americans, and From Slavery to Freedom, a history written with John Hope Franklin and Alfred A. Moss Jr.