About the Contributors
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Derek H. Alderman is associate professor of cultural and historical geography at East Carolina University in Greenville, North Carolina. He is a nationally recognized expert on the politics of naming streets after Martin Luther King Jr. and coauthor with Owen Dwyer of Civil Rights Memorials and the Geography of Memory, published by the Center for American Places and University of Georgia Press.
David Cunningham is associate professor of sociology at Brandeis University. His book on the organization of FBI counterintelligence activities against political dissenters, There’s Something Happening Here: The New Left, the Klan, and FBI Counterintelligence, was published by the University of California Press in 2004. His research includes the rise and fall of the Civil Rights-era Ku Klux Klan and the emergence of alternative institutions on campuses during the 1960s.
William R. Ferris is the Joel R. Williamson Eminent Professor of History, senior associate director of the Center for the Study of the American South, and adjunct professor of folklore at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. A former chair of the National Endowment for the Humanities, he has made numerous documentary films and has authored over 100 publications in the fields of folklore, history, literature, and photography.
Larry J. Griffin edits Southern Cultures with Harry L. Watson and is the Reed Professor of Sociology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he teaches in the history and American studies departments. His teaching and research interests include collective memory, social identity, and the intersection of race, rights, and region.
Elizabeth Gritter is a Ph.D. candidate in the department of history at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Fifty-five of her oral histories are housed in the Southern Oral History Program Collection, Library of Congress, and Memphis and Shelby County Public Library and Information Center.
Robert Hamburger teaches American literature and creative writing at New Jersey City University. His books include Our Portion of Hell: An Oral History of the Struggle for Civil Rights in Fayette County, Tennessee, and the novel, Shiraz. He is the producer of the documentary film, Freedom’s Front Line: Fayette County, Tennessee, which airs on WKNO in Memphis this year. He also serves as executive director of the Fayette County Civil Rights Museum, which archives material in Special Collections at the University of Memphis Library.
Peggy G. Hargis, professor of sociology at Georgia Southern University, sits on the editorial boards of Southern Cultures and Social Forces, serves as book review editor for Historical Methods, and as associate editor of Southern Classics at University of South Carolina Press. Her research investigates the historical underpinnings of racial inequality in the American South.
Sarah Thuesen teaches in the department of history and political science at Warren Wilson College. She worked with the “Long Civil Rights Movement” initiative as a Postdoctoral Visiting Scholar at the Southern Oral History Program from 2005 to 2007.
Stephen J. Whitfield holds the Max Richter Chair in American Civilization at Brandeis University, where he has taught since 1972. He has also served as a visiting professor at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, the Catholic University of Leuven and Louvain-la-Neuve in Belgium, the University of Munich, and the Sorbonne. His publications include A Death in the Delta: The Story of Emmett Till and In Search of American Jewish Culture. [End Page 154]
