KEISHA N. BLAIN teaches history at the University of Pittsburgh. She is author of Set the World on Fire: Black Nationalist Women and the Global Struggle for Freedom and coeditor of Charleston Syllabus: Readings on Race, Racism, and Racial Violence.

CHRISTOPHER CAMERON is an associate professor of history at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. He is author of To Plead Our Own Cause: African Americans in Massachusetts and the Making of the Antislavery Movement.

ASHLEY D. FARMER is an assistant professor of history and African and African diaspora studies at the University of Texas at Austin. She is author of Remaking Black Power: How Black Women Transformed an Era, the first comprehensive study of black women's intellectual production and activism in the Black Power era.