Minrose Gwin teaches English at the University of Tennessee. She is a great-granddaughter of Washington Lafayette Clayton.

Jocelyn Chadwick-Joshua is director of the American studies program at Dallas Institute for the Humanities.

Tara Prescott, Los Angeles, California, is lecturer and faculty in residence at the University of California, Los Angeles. She is author of Poetic Salvage: Reading Mina Loy; editor of Neil Gaiman in the ...

Robert E. Luckett Jr. is associate professor of history and director of the Margaret Walker Center at Jackson State University. He is author of Joe T. Patterson and the White South's Dilemma: Evolving ...

Max Alvarez is a film historian and public speaker on world cinema. He has developed presentation partnerships with such organizations as the Smithsonian Institution and is the former film programmer ...

Robert F. Lewis II has a doctorate from the University of New Mexico where he teaches part time. He has published in Outside the Lines, the journal of the Society of American Baseball Research.

Linda Crawford formerly served as executive director of South Delta Library Services and the Triangle Cultural Center in Yazoo City, Mississippi.

Gilbert R. Mason, M.D., was a practicing physician in Biloxi, Mississippi. Although a life-long Democrat, he served as a school-desegregation adviser to the Republican administration of President Nixon, ...