Jeffrey L. Littlejohn, professor of history at Sam Houston State University, is coauthor of Elusive Equality: Desegregation and Resegregation in Norfolk's Public Schools.

Reginald K. Ellis, associate professor of history at Florida A&M University, is the author of Between Washington and Du Bois: The Racial Politics of James Edward Shepard.

Peter B. Levy, professor of history at York College, is the author of Civil War on Race Street: The Civil Rights Movement in Cambridge, Maryland.