Randall K Burkett Author & Editor

Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham is Victor S. Thomas Professor of History and of African American Studies at Harvard University. Leon F. Litwack is A. & M. Morrison Professor of American History, Emeritus, at the University of California, Berkeley, where he received the Golden Apple Award for Outstanding Teaching in 2007. He is also winner of the Pulitzer Prize in History, the Francis Parkman Prize, and the American Book Award and recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship and a National Endowment for the Humanities Film Grant. Darlene Clark Hine is John A. Hannah Professor of History at Michigan State University. Randall K. Burkett is Curator of the African American Collections at Emory University. Henry Louis Gates, Jr., is the author of numerous books and has written extensively on the history of race and anti-Black racism in the Enlightenment. His most recent works include Stony the Road and The Black Church. He is the Alphonse Fletcher University Professor and Director of the Hutchins Center for African and African American Research at Harvard University. Clayborne Carson is Professor of History at Stanford University and Director of the Martin Luther King, Jr., Papers Project. James P. Danky is Newspapers and Periodicals Librarian at the State Historical Society of Wisconsin and the editor of Black Periodicals and Newspapers. Gary B. Nash is Professor of History Emeritus, University of California, Los Angeles, and Professor and Director, National Center for History in the Schools.