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Contributors Omar H. Ali is associate professor of African American and Diaspora Studies at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. He has written two books on the history of independent black politics: In the Lion’s Mouth: Black Populism in the New South, 1886–1900 (2010) and In the Balance of Power (2008), the latter named “a landmark work” by the National Political Science Review. Evan P. Bennett is assistant professor of history at Florida Atlantic University and is completing a manuscript on the history of tobacco agriculture in the Old Bright Belt of the Virginia–North Carolina Piedmont. Scott E. Casper is Foundation Professor of History at the University of Nevada at Reno. His books include Sarah Johnson’s Mount Vernon (2008) and Constructing American Lives (1999), for which he won the book prize of the Society for the History of Authorship, Reading, and Publishing. Valerie Grim is chairperson and professor of African American and African Diaspora Studies at Indiana University. Her articles have appeared in Agricultural History; Oral History Review; Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies; Black Women, Gender & Families, and Rural Development Perspectives. Grim’s “Life at Brooks Farm: Stories of African American Rural Experiences in the Yazoo-Mississippi Delta, 1910–1970,” is under contract and her book-length study, “Between Forty Acres and a Class Action: Black Farmers’ Protest against the United States Department of Agriculture, 1995–2010,” is in progress. Carmen V. Harris is associate professor of history at the University of South Carolina Upstate. She received the Vernon Carstensen Memorial Award from the Agricultural History Society for her article “‘The Extension Service Is Not an Integration Agency’: The Idea of Race in the Cooperative Extension Service,” Agricultural History (Spring 2008). Kelly A. Minor is adjunct assistant professor of history at Santa Fe College. She has published articles on rural women’s reform programs in Migration and the Transformation of the Southern Workplace since 1945, edited by Robert Cassanello and Colin J. Davis (2009), and Entering the Fray: Gender, Politics, and Culture in the New South, edited by Jonathan Daniel Wells and Sheila R. Phipps (2010). 318 · Contributors Adrienne Petty is assistant professor at the City College of New York (CUNY). She and Mark Schultz received a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities for Breaking New Ground: A History of African American Farm Owners after the Civil War. The project generated hundreds of interviews with farm owners, archived in the Southern Oral History Collection at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She also is completing a study on small farmers and the transformation of rural society in eastern North Carolina. Debra A. Reid is professor of history at Eastern Illinois University and adjunct professor in the College of Agricultural, Consumer, and Environmental Sciences at the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana. Her first book, Reaping a Greater Harvest: African Americans, the Extension Service, and Rural Reform in Jim Crow Texas (2007), received the T. R. Fehrenbach Award from the Texas Historical Commission. Jarod Roll teaches American history at the University of Sussex in England where he is the founding director of the Marcus Cunliffe Centre for the Study of the American South. He is the author of Spirit of Rebellion: Labor and Religion in the New Cotton South (2010) which won the C. L. R. James Award and the Missouri History Book Award. Most recently he is the co-author (with Erik S. Gellman) of The Gospel of the Working Class: Labor’s New Deal Prophets (2011). Mark Schultz is professor of history at Lewis University and author of The Rural Face of White Supremacy: Beyond Jim Crow (2005). He and Adrienne Petty collaborated on Breaking New Ground: A History of African American Farm Owners after the Civil War, an ambitious oral history project documenting the rise, experience, and legacy of black farm owners in the South. Loren Schweninger is the Elizabeth Rosenthal Excellence Professor at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. He has written a number of scholarly articles and seven books, including Black Property Owners in the South, 1780–1915 (1990) and with John Hope Franklin, In Search of the Promised Land: A Slave Family in the South (2006). Between 1991 and 2009 he served as director of the Race and Slavery Petitions Project, now online as the Digital Library on American Slavery. Keith J. Volanto is professor of history at Collin College in Plano, Texas. He specializes in early twentieth-century U.S. and Texas history...

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