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CONTRIBUTORS Kenneth Osgood is the director of the McBride Honors Program in Public Affairs and is associate professor in the Division of Liberal Arts and International Studies at the Colorado School of Mines. For ten years, he taught at Florida Atlantic University, where he was the director of the History Symposium Series. Ken has been the Stanley Kaplan Visiting Professor of American Foreign Policy at Williams College (2010–11) and the Mary Ball Washington Professor of American History at University College Dublin (2006–7). He is the author of Total Cold War: Eisenhower’s Secret Propaganda Battle at Home and Abroad. Derrick White is associate professor at Florida Atlantic University in the Department of History. Professor White is the author of The Challenge of Blackness: The Institute of the Black World and Political Activism in the 1970s. His research areas include African American activism, Black Power, and sports history. Mary Frances Berry has been the Geraldine R. Segal Professor of American Social Thought and Professor of History since 1987. She is the author of ten books including Power in Words: The Stories behind Barack Obama’s Speeches, from the State House to the White House with Josh Gottheimer; And Justice For All: The United States Commission On Civil Rights And the Struggle For Freedom in America; and My Face Is Black Is True: Callie House and the Struggle for ExSlave Reparations. Tim Borstelmann is the new Thompson Professor of Modern World History at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln. He spent twelve years in the History Department at Cornell University, where he was a prize-winning author and teacher. His most recent books include The Cold War and the Color Line: American Race Relations in the Global Arena and Created Equal: A Social and Political History of the United States. Steven F. Lawson is professor emeritus at Rutgers University. He has written Black Ballots: Voting Rights in the South, 1944–1969; In Pursuit of Power:· 287 · 288 · Contributors Southern Blacks and Electoral Politics, 1965–1989; and Running for Freedom: Civil Rights and Black Politics in America Since 1941, 3rd edition. Richard L. Pacelle Jr. is a faculty member in the Department of Political Science at Georgia Southern University. He is the author of Between Law and Politics: The Solicitor General and the Structuring of Race, Gender, and Reproductive Rights Litigation. His areas of concentration are judicial politics and public Law, American politics, and research methods. John D. Skrentny is the director of the Center for Comparative Immigration Studies and professor of sociology at the University of California, San Diego. He is the author of The Minority Rights Revolution. His research focuses on public policy and law and inequality, especially as they relate to immigration and civil rights. Robert C. Smith is professor of political science at San Francisco State University . He is the author or coauthor of more than forty articles and essays and nine books including Race, Class and Culture: A Study in Afro-American Mass Opinion; Racism in the Post–Civil Rights Era: Now You See It, Now You Don’t; We Have No Leaders: African Americans in the Post–Civil Rights Era; and African American Leadership. He is associate editor of the National Political Science Review and general editor of the State University of New York (SUNY) Press African American Studies series. Ronald W. “Ron” Walters (July 20, 1938–September 10, 2010) was an American scholar known worldwide for his knowledge of African American politics through his leadership and his writing. He was the director of the African American Leadership Institute and Scholar Practitioner Program, Distinguished Leadership Scholar at the James MacGregor Burns Academy of Leadership , and a respected professor in government and politics at the University of Maryland. He authored seven books and more than one hundred articles. Charles Zelden is professor of political science in the Farquhar College of Arts and Sciences at Nova Southeastern University. A specialist in American legal and constitutional history, he is the author of Bush v. Gore: Exposing the Hidden Crisis in American Democracy. ...

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