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There he challenged the code of segregation by coaliazing with black scholars, including Will W.

After graduating he taught English composition for two years at Georgia Tech in Atlanta.

In 1930 he transferred to Emory University, where his uncle was Dean of students and professor of sociology. Vann Woodward was born in Vanndale, Arkansas, a town named after his mother's family he attended high school in Morrilton, Arkansas, then attended Henderson-Brown College a small Methodist school in Arkadelphia, Arkansas, for two years. He was a master of irony and counterpoint.Ĭ. He was long an advocate of Charles Beard's interpretation, stressing the influence of unseen economic motivations in politics. Along with Richard Hofstadter and Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., he was one of the most influential historians of the postwar era, 1940s-1970s, both among scholars and the general public. Comer Vann Woodward (NovemDecember 17, 1999) was a pre-eminent American historian focusing primarily on the American South and race relations.