Arsnick: The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee in Arkansas

Contributors

Contributors Randy Finley is professor of history at Georgia Perimeter College in Dunwoody, Georgia, and the author of From Slavery to Uncertain Freedom: The Freedmen’s Bureau in Arkansas, 1865–1869 (1996). This article originally appeared in the summer 2006 issue of the Arkansas Historical Quarterly. John A. Kirk is chair and Donaghey Professor of History at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock. He is the author of numerous books, articles, and essays on the civil rights movement, including Redefining the Color Line: Black Activism in Little Rock, Arkansas, 1940–1970 (2002), Martin Luther King, Jr. (2005), and Beyond Little Rock: The Origins and Legacies of the Central High Crisis (2007). Holly Y. McGee is a graduate student at the University of WisconsinMadison and is at work on a dissertation entitled When the Window Closed: Gender, Race, and (Inter)Nationalism in the United States and South Africa, 1920s–1960s. She was the 2010–2011 recipient of the Erskine A. Peters Dissertation Year Fellowship. This article originally appeared in the spring 2007 issue of the Arkansas Historical Quarterly. Brent Riffel holds a doctorate in modern American history from the University of Arkansas-Fayetteville and has written on topics related to Arkansas history for a number of publications. He currently teaches American history at College of the Canyons in Valencia, California. This article originally appeared in the winter 2004 issue of the Arkansas Historical Quarterly. Jennifer Jensen Wallach is the author of Closer to the Truth Than Any Fact: Memoir, Memory, and Jim Crow (2008) and Richard Wright: From Black Boy to World Citizen (2010). She teaches African American history at the University of North Texas. This article originally appeared in the autumn 2008 issue of the Arkansas Historical Quarterly. 277 ...