[2] During his short tenure at Scripps, he was the recipient of the 2011 Professor of the Year Award[3] and published his book The Nicest Kids in Town: American Bandstand, Rock n’ Roll, and the Struggle for Civil Rights in 1950s Philadelphia through the University of California Press.
[4] In his book, he discredits claims by the late Dick Clark, host and producer of American Bandstand, that the show was a pioneer of on-air racial politics and integration.
[5] By June 2014, Delmont left Scripps College and accepted a position at Arizona State University (ASU) as a professor in their history department.
[9] Following the publication of his second and third books, Delmont was promoted to Director of ASU's School of Historical, Philosophical and Religious Studies[10] and awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship to continue his research on African-American racial struggles in America.
The goal of the project was to create an open-access multimedia free archive that featured 1,000 media objects from African-American newspapers, audio clips, and videos during historical moments in of black resistance in American history.