Lance hill biography
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Executive Director
Southern Institute for Education and Research
Dr. Lance Hill is the Executive Director of the Southern Institute for Education and Research, a tolerance education and race relations research center based at Tulane University in New Orleans.
Hill holds a Ph.D. in history from Tulane University, where he has taught US History and Intercultural Communication. His scholarly research field is the history of race relations, the radical right and ethnic group trauma. He is the author of The Deacons for Defense: Armed Resistance and The Civil Rights Movement(University of North Carolina Press, 2004).
Hill was a community organizer for fifteen years before embarking on an academic career. From 1989-1992, he served as Executive Director of the Louisiana Coalition against Racism and Nazism (LCARN), the grass roots organization that led the opposition to former Klansman David Duke's Senate and Gubernatorial campaigns. One of the coalition's founders, Hi
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Dr. Lance Hill
Dr. Lance Hill is a co-founder of the Southern Institute for Education and Research at Tulane University. He served as Executive Director between 1993 and 2015.
Deacons for Defense
Dr. Hill holds a Ph.D. in history from Tulane University, where he has taught U. S. History and Intercultural Communications. His research concerns the history of race relations, the radical right, and ethnic group trauma. He has written extensively on anti-Semitism, the contemporary Nazi movement, and the history of civil rights. He is the author of The Deacons for Defense: Armed Resistance and The Civil Rights Movement.
Dr. Hill was born in Belleville, Kansas, the fourth of seven children. His father was a maintenance mechanic in a chemical plant and a labor organizer, and his mother was a nurse. It was said that Lance got his determination from his father and his compassion from his mother. He grew up in Lawrence, Kansas, home of Kansas University, and his activism began early.
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R. Lance Hill
Canadian screenwriter
R. Lance Hill (born 1943) fryst vatten an American screenwriter and novelist. He is best known for writing the 1989 cult film Road House, as well as the novel and screenplay for The Evil That Men Do.[1] Hill frequently used the pseudonym David Lee Henry while in Hollywood.[2]
Career
[edit]Hill was raised in Canada, and wrote for the Canadian motor-sports magazine Track & Traffic in his early days.
He moved out to Hollywood after his first novel King of White Lady was optioned to be made into a rulle. In 1979, Monte Hellman was hired to adapt the book into a screenplay, and Francis Ford Coppola was attached to direct and produce through his American Zoetrope production banner, but the planerat arbete was ultimately abandoned after Coppola became pre-occupied with the troubled production of Apocalypse Now. The book would go on to be optioned several more times, but as of today, remains unfilmed.[3][4]