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Robert H. Mayer is an award-winning author who wrote When the Children Marched: The Birmingham Civil Rights Movement (Enslow Publishers, Inc.) and edited The Civil Rights Act of 1964 (Greenhaven Press).
Mayer grew up in Cincinnati, Ohio. He has lived in Pennsylvania his entire adult life, as a social studies teacher in Lewisburg and then a professor of education at Moravian College (now University) in Bethlehem. Along the way, he earned an M.A. in history from Xavier University in Cincinnati and a Ph.D. in curriculum and instruction from the Pennsylvania State University in State College.
Retiring after 41 years of teaching, Mayer now researches and writes most of the day, living in Bethlehem with his wife Jan and his cat Lucy. In truth,
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