Freedom on My Mind: A History of African Americans with Documents, Vol. 1: To 1885
Deborah Gray White (Ph.D., University of Illinois at Chicago) is Board of Governors Professor of History at Rutgers University. She is the author of many works includingToo Heavy a Load: Black Women in Defense of Themselves, 1894-1994;Ar'n't I a Woman? Female Slaves in the Plantation South; and the edited volumeTelling Histories: Black Women Historians in the Ivory Tower. She is a recipient of the John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship and the Woodrow Wilson International Center Fellowship. Her current project uses the mass marches and demonstrations of the 1990s to explore the history of the decade. Mia Bay (Ph.D., Yale University) is Professor of History at Rutgers University and the Director of the Rutgers Center for Race and Ethnicity. Her publications includeTo Tell the Truth Freely: The Life of Ida B. WellsandThe White Image in the Black Mind: African-American Ideas about White People, 1830-1925. She is a recipient of the Alphonse Fletcher Sr. Fellowship and the National Humanities Center Fellowship. Currently, she is at work on a book examining the social history of segregated transportation and a study of African American views on Thomas Jefferson. Waldo E. Martin Jr. (Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley) is Professor of History at the University of California, Berkeley. He is the author ofNo Coward Soldiers: Black Cultural Politics in Postwar AmericaandThe Mind of Frederick Douglassand serves as co-editor of the John Hope Franklin Series in African American History and Culture. Current projects include a forthcoming co-authored book on the Black Panther Party, as well as a book on the modern black freedom struggle with an emphasis on the impact of black cultural politics.