Date: 5/21/2009
By Christian Feuerstein ‘94
Laurence Glasco ’62 is an Associate Professor in History at the University of Pittsburgh. He has authored several books about the history of African-Americans in Pennsylvania—Legacy in Bricks and Mortar: Historic Sites of Black Pittsburgh (Pittsburgh History and Landmarks Foundation, 1995); and The WPA History of the Negro in Pittsburgh (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2004), which he edited. He is currently working on two other books; one is about the late K. Leroy Irvis, the first African-American to serve as a speaker of the House in any state legislature in the United States since Reconstruction, and one about August Wilson’s Pittsburgh.