Dr. Tommy Bynum

CONTACT:
E-mail: tbynum@mtsu.edu
Phone: (615) 898-2760
Office Location: Pect Hall Room 224E
MTSU Box 23
Murfreesboro, TN 37132

TEACHING FIELDS:
African American History (emphasis on youth activism and the civil rights movement)
Twentieth Century United States History
American South

COURSES TAUGHT

• History 2010, Survey of United States History I
• History 2020, Survey of United States History II
• History 2040, Survey of African American History I
• History 2050, Survey of African American History II
• History 3020, Topics in American History, Youth Activism since the 1930s
• History 3020, Topics in American History: Modern Civil Rights Movement
• History 3030, Topics in African American History: Black Youth Activism and the Civil Rights Movement

RESEARCH INTEREST:
I am interested in youth activism from the 1930s to the present, particularly the activities of youth groups that are connected to the modern civil rights movement and antiwar protest. I am currently researching the activism of the NAACP youth councils and college chapters from 1936 to 1965. While the NAACP youth groups have received little scholarly attention, they have made significant contributions to civil rights struggles and antiwar protests across the United States.

OUTSIDE INTEREST AND PUBLIC SERVICE:
Volunteer work with the Murfreesboro NAACP and the MTSU NAACP Chapter

PUBLICATIONS AND OTHER CREATIVE WORKS:
Bynum, Tommy L. “The Civil Rights Movement in Tennessee,” in Tennessee Electronic History Reader, ed. Amy Sayward. Knoxville, University of Tennessee Press, 2007.

WORK IN PROGRESS:
Revising article, “Juanita Jackson and the Building of a National Youth Movement within the NAACP,” to submit to the Journal of African American History

Revising dissertation to submit for publication

HONORS:
2006-2007, Geier Dissertation Fellow, Middle Tennessee State University
2006-2007, Southern Regional Education Board Dissertation Fellow, Georgia State University
2006, National Endowment for the Humanities Fellow, Harvard University Civil Rights Institute

EDUCATION:
Ph.D., 2007, Georgia State University
M.A., 1995, Clark Atlanta University
B. S., 1993, Barton College