About the Contributors

Sharon Wright Austin, Ph.D., Professor of Political Science, and Director, African American Studies Program (2011-2019), University of Florida.

Stephanie Birch, M.A., MLS, Librarian, African American Studies, George A. Smathers Libraries, University of Florida.

David A. Canton, Ph.D., Associate Professor of History and Director, African American Studies Program, University of Florida.

Sherry Sherrod DuPree, Ed.S., AMLS, Library Science, CEO, DuPree Pentecostal Holiness Center, Gainesville, Florida.

Jacob U’Mofe Gordon, Ph.D., LL.D. (Hon); Professor Emeritus, Founding Chair, Department of African & African American Studies University of Kansas, and Former Kwame Nkrumah Endowed Chair, University of Ghana.

Patricia Hilliard-Nunn, Ph.D., Senior Lecturer, African American Studies Program, University of Florida, and Local Historian, Gainesville, Florida.

David L. Horne, Ph.D., Professor, Critical Thinking and African History, California State University Northridge, California. (UF Graduate, 1968).

Barbara McDade Gordon, Ph.D., Professor Emerita, Geography and African Studies, and Director, Upward Bound Program (2004-2012), University of Florida.

Gwenuel W. Mingo, Ph.D., Director, Upward Bound Program (1974-2003), University of Florida.

Paul Ortiz, Ph.D., Professor of History, Affiliate Faculty in African American Studies, and Director, Samuel Proctor Oral History Program, University of Florida.

Harry B. Shaw, Ph.D., Professor Emeritus, Department of English, and Associate Dean, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, University of Florida.