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Nick Kotz

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Nick Kotz

Nathan "Nick" K. Kotz (September 16, 1932 April 26, 2020) was an American journalist, author, and historian. He was born in San Antonio, Texas. He was best known for his 2005 book Judgment Days: Lyndon Baines Johnson, Martin Luther King Jr., and the Laws that Changed America[1] talking about the roles of President Lyndon B. Johnson and Martin Luther King Jr. in the passage of the 1964, 1965, and 1968 civil rights laws. Kotz won a Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting in 1968.[2]

Kotz was killed outside his farm on April 26, 2020 in Broad Run, Virginia after being hit by his car, aged 87.[3]

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  1. Nick Kotz (2005), Judgment Days: Lyndon Baines Johnson, Martin Luther King Jr., and the Laws That Changed America, Houghton Mifflin Company, New York, NY, ISBN 0-618-08825-3
  2. "1968 Pulitzer Prize Winners". Archived from the original on 2012-09-01. Retrieved 2020-04-29.
  3. ""Nick" Kotz, author and journalist killed in accident". Archived from the original on 2020-05-07. Retrieved 2020-04-29.
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