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Ph.D., Indiana University

B.A., Macalester College

Civil Rights History from the Ground Up: Local Struggles, a National Movement, ed., University of Georgia press, 2011.

A Little Taste of Freedom: The Black Freedom Struggle in Claiborne County, Mississippi, University of North Carolina press, 2005.

Introduction: 淭he Politics of Writing and Teaching Movement History.�

湗It wasn檛 the Wild West�: Keeping Local Studies in Self-Defense Historiography.�

Conclusion: 淒oesn檛 everybody want to grow up to be Ella Baker? Teaching Movement History.�

淢aking Eyes on the Prize: An Interview with Filmmaker and SNCC Staffer Judy Richardson.�

淭hat Movement Responsibility: An Interview with Judy Richardson on Movement Values and Movement History.�

National Endowment for the Humanities, Fellowship for College Teachers, 2015-16.

National Humanities Center, Fellow, 2014-15.

John Hope Franklin Center for African and African American History and Culture, Travel Grant, Duke University, 2014-15.

Visiting Scholar, James Weldon Johnson Institute, Emory University, 2011-12.

National Endowment for the Humanities, Fellowship for College Teachers, 2000-2001.

Dr. Nuala McGann Drescher Affirmative Action Leave, New York State/UUP, 1998-99.

Carter G. Woodson Research Fellowship, University of Virginia, Aug. 1993-Aug. 1995 (dissertation fellowship).

NCAA Basketball Post-graduate Scholarship, Alternate, 1987.

Civil Rights Movement Speakers

淩emembering Julian Bond� Blog for Organization of American Historians, August 15, 2016, Process揂 Blog for American History.

淎 Documents-Based Lesson on the Voting Rights Act: A Case Study of SNCC檚 work in Lowndes County and the Emergence of Black Power,� Oct. 2015, Teaching for Change.

淭he Voting Rights Act: 10 Things You Should Know,� with Judy Richardson, Teaching for Change and Zinn Education Project, Aug. 2015.

淭he Voting Rights Act: Beyond the Headlines� with Judy Richardson (a longer, 12-point version of the 淰RA: 10 Things�) Aug. 2015.

淭he Selma Voting Rights Struggle: 15 Key Points from Bottom-Up History and Why It Matters Today,� Teaching for Change and Zinn Education Project, Jan. 2015. [This piece and the one below were reprinted widely.]

淭en Things You Should Know 第一吃瓜网 Selma Before You See the Film� (shorter version of �15 Facts�, published on Common Dreams and Teaching for Change, and re-posted in many places), Jan. 2015. ()

For information about SNCC and Grassroots Organizing NEH grant, including livestream events, see: .

淣ot that Kind of Tired: Rosa Parks and Organizing the Montgomery Bus Boycott,� in Understanding and Teaching the Civil Rights Movement ed. Hasan Kwame Jeffries (University of Wisconsin Press, forthcoming).

淩ethinking and Un-teaching Entrenched Movement Narratives: A Virtual Roundtable,� with Frazier, Hogan, Jeffries, and Spencer, for a special issue 淓xpanding the Narrative: Exploring New Aspects of the Civil Rights Movement Fifty Years Later,� ed. by Simmons and Mingo in Fire! The Multimedia Journal of Black Studies, Vol. 2.2. 2013 (released 2015), 78-108. DOI: 10.5323

湗Looking the Devil in the Eye�: Race Relations and the Civil Rights Movement in Claiborne County History and Memory,� in The Civil Rights Movement in Mississippi, ed. by Ted Ownby (University Press of Mississippi, 2013), 266-99.

湗I Just Had a Fire!�: An Interview with Dorie Ann Ladner,� Southern Quarterly, 52, no. 1 (Fall 2014), 79-110.

湗The lady folk is a doer�: Women and the Civil Rights Movement in Claiborne County, Mississippi,� in Mississippi Women: Their Histories, Their Lives, vol. 2, ed. by Martha Swain, Elizabeth Payne, and Marjorie Spruill (University of Georgia press, 2010). Slightly revised version of a chapter originally published in: Stepping Forward: Black Women in Africa and the Americas.

淲hite Privilege, Black Burden: Lost Opportunities and Deceptive Narratives in School Desegregation in Claiborne County, Mississippi,� Oral History Review, 29, no. 2 (Summer/ Fall 2012): 258-85. (doi:10.1093).

湗God檚 Appointed Savior�: Charles Evers檚 Use of Local Movements for National Prestige,� in Groundwork: The Local Black Freedom Movement in America, eds. Komozi Woodard and Jeanne Theoharis (New York: New York University press, 2005), 165-92.

湗You Got a Right To Defend Yourself�: Self-Defense and the Claiborne County, Mississippi Movement,� International Journal of Africana Studies, vol. 9 (no. 1, Spring 2004), 133-63.

湗This nonviolent stuff ain檛 no good. It檒l get ya killed.�: Teaching about Self-Defense in the African-American Freedom Struggle,� in Teaching the Civil Rights Movement eds. Julie Buckner, Houston Roberson, Rhonda Y. Williams, Susan Holt (New York: Routledge, 2002), 159-73.