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369 THE CONTRIBUTORS Cameron Binkley is the deputy command historian at the Defense Language Institute and Presidio of Monterey, Monterey, California. He was previously a historian with the National Park Service. He received his bachelor’s degree from the University of Denver in 1984, a master’s degree from the Monterey Institute of International Studies in 1990, and a master ’s degree in history from San Francisco State University in 2000. He is the author of five books published by the National Park Service and of several articles in scholarly journals. Robert W. Cherny is a professor of history at San Francisco State University . He received his bachelor’s degree from the University of Nebraska in 1965, and his master’s degree and PhD from Columbia University in 1967 and 1972. He is the author of several books, chapters in anthologies, and articles in scholarly journals, most dealing with politics in the American West, especially California. He has been an neh fellow, a Distinguished Fulbright Lecturer at Moscow State University, a Senior Fulbright Scholar at the University of Heidelberg, and a Visiting Research Scholar at the University of Melbourne, and has served as treasurer of the Organization of American Historians and on the council of the American Historical Association, Pacific Coast Branch. Eunice Eichelberger is retired. She received her bachelor’s degree from Stanford University, a law degree from the University of Oregon in 1974, and a master’s degree in history from San Francisco State in 2004. She is a member of the California State Bar and the author of many annotations in American Law Reports. Susan Englander is an adjunct in history at City College of San Francisco. She received her master’s degree from San Francisco State in 1989, and a PhD in history from ucla in 1999. She is the author of Class Coalition and Class Conflict in the California Woman Suffrage Movement, 1907–1912 (1992), the lead editor for Volume VI: Advocate of the Social Gospel, September 1948-March 1963 of The Papers of Martin Luther King, Jr. (2007), a coeditor of the Martin Luther King, Jr., Encyclopedia (2008), and the author of articles in scholarly journals. contributors 370 Mildred Nichols Hamilton received her bachelor’s degree in journalism from the University of Oklahoma in 1943. Her career included thirty years with the San Francisco Examiner as a top feature writer. Always a feminist, she took pride in “liberating” the press box at the University of Oklahoma stadium when she took the seat reserved for the editor of the student newspaper. She later covered national and international conferences on women’s rights. In 1955 she received a fellowship for a year in Europe to study the effect of the United Nations; her series on women was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize. After retiring, she earned a master’s degree in history from San Francisco State University in 1996. She died a few days after reviewing the page proofs for her chapter here. She was eighty-eight. Jarrod Harrison is the social studies department chair at Carlmont High School, Belmont, California. He received the California League of High Schools Educator of the Year award for his region in 2009. His bachelor’s degree is from California State University, Stanislaus, in 1994, and his master’s degree is in history, from San Francisco State University in 1997. Linda Heidenreich is an associate professor and the chair of women’s studies and a member of the graduate faculty in American studies at Washington State University. Her bachelor’s degree is from San Francisco State University in 1987 and her PhD is from the University of California, San Diego, in 2000. She is the author of “This Land Was Mexican Once”: Histories of Resistance from Northern California (2007). Her articles have appeared in the Journal of Chicana/Latina Studies, the Journal of American Ethnic History, and other scholarly journals. Sandra L. Henderson is a doctoral candidate in history at the University of Illinois, Urbana–Champaign, where she has been the managing editor of the Journal of Women’s History. She received her bachelor’s degree in 1999 and her master’s degree in 2002, both in history, from San Francisco State. Mark Hopkins received his bachelor’s degree from San Francisco State University and is currently a graduate student there. Teresa Hurley is a senior paralegal at Morrison and Foerster, in San Francisco . She received her bachelor’s degree in history from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1988...

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