MISTI NICOLE HARPER is an assistant professor of African American history at the University of North Carolina Pembroke. Her work has appeared in the Arkansas Historical Quarterly and International Journal of Humanities Education, and she is the author of the e-textbook Crossing the Deep River: An Introduction to African American History. Harper also served as the historical consultant for Focus on the Women's Suffrage Movement, part of the Read Woke Books children's educational series. She currently lives in North Carolina.