Sharon Harley

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Sharon Harley is an Associate Professor and Chair of the African American Studies Department at the University of Maryland, College Park. She received her Ph.D. in United States History from Howard University and has conducted considerable research on black women’s history, focusing on their gender and labor issues and,...

Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham

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Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham is the Victor S. Thomas Professor of History and of African and African American Studies at Harvard University.  She is currently the chair of the Department of African and African American Studies and has held this position since 2006. The Duke University Law School invited Prof....

Francille Rusan Wilson

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Francille Rusan Wilson is Associate Professor of American Studies and Ethnicity, and History at the University of Southern California. She is a product of the segregated and desegregating schools of St. Louis County, Missouri. Wilson earned a B.A. in Political Science from Wellesley College where she co-founded Ethos, Wellesley’s...

Darlene Clark Hine

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  Darlene Clark Hine is a leading historian of the African American experience who helped found the field of black women’s history and has been one of its most prolific scholars. Hine is a 2015 National Women’s History Month Honoree. On July 28, 2014, President Barack Obama honored Hine...

Bettye Collier-Thomas

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Bettye Collier-Thomas, Professor of History at Temple University, received her PhD in United States History from George Washington University in 1974. Appointed by Joseph Duffy, head of the National Endowment for the Humanities, as a Special Consultant to the division of Public Programs (1977-1980), she developed NEH’s first program...

Deborah Gray White

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  Deborah Gray White is Board of Governors Professor of History and Women and Gender Studies at Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey. She is author of Ar’n’t I A Woman? Female Slaves in the Plantation South (1985/1999), a gendered analysis of the institution of slavery. She is also...

Wilma King

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After completing the dissertation, “Coming of Age: Hollis B. Frissell and the Emergence of Hampton Institute, 1893-1917,” I began research for Stolen Childhood: Slave Children and Youth in the Nineteenth Century-America (1995). I am pleased with publishing the first monograph on the subject, but I remain embarrassed at never...

Jacqueline A. Rouse

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Dr. Jacqueline A. Rouse has been a member of the History Department of Georgia State University since 1991, developing and teaching classes in African American History, specifically African American women. She has also served as associate faculty in the Women Studies Institute and the Department of African American Studies....

Brenda E. Stevenson

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Brenda E. Stevenson is Professor of History at UCLA. She was born and raised in Portsmouth, Virginia. She attended local public schools before matriculating at the University of Virginia. Her college mentors included Paul Gaston, Barry Gaspar, Joseph Miller, Arnold Rampersad, Vivian Gordon and Joseph Washington. Stevenson went on...

Janice L. Sumler-Edmond

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Dr. Janice L. Sumler-Edmond has served as a professor of United States History, African American History, and Constitutional History and Law at Huston-Tillotson University in Austin, Texas since 2002. She is also the director of the W. E. B. DuBois Honors Program that is dedicated to motivating talented students,...