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Leslie Brown is a professor of history at Williams College in Williamstown, Massachusetts. She is the author of Upbuilding Black Durham: Gender, Class, and Black Community Development in the Urban South, the editor of Voices of Freedom II: A Documentary History, from Emancipation to the Present, and (with Anne Valk) coeditor of Living with Jim Crow: African American Women and Memories of the Segregated South.

Jacqueline Castledine teaches interdisciplinary studies in the University Without Walls at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, where she also directs program innovation for the College of Humanities and Fine Arts. She is the coeditor of Breaking the Wave: Women, Their Organizations, and Feminism, 1945-1985 and the author of Cold War Progressives: Women's Interracial Organizing for Peace and Justice.

Anne Valk is the associate director for public humanities at Williams College in Williamstown, Massachusetts. She is the author of Radical Sisters: Women's Liberation and the Black Freedom Movement in Washington, D.C., 1968-1980 and the coeditor (with Leslie Brown) of Living with Jim Crow: African American Women and Memories of the Segregated South.