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benjamin barber is a writer and advocate who is heavily interested in voting rights, democracy, and southern history. He currently serves as the Democracy Program Coordinator at the Institute for Southern Studies and as a contributing writer for Facing South.

zeina hashem beck is a Lebanese poet. Her third poetry collection, titled O, was published by Penguin Books in July 2022. It won the 2023 Arab American Book Award for Poetry and was named a Best Book 2022 by Lit Hub and the New York Public Library.

orville vernon burton is the inaugural Judge Matthew J. Perry Distinguished Chair of History and Professor of Global Black Studies, Sociology, and Anthropology, and Computer Science at Clemson University. He is the coauthor, with Armand Derfner, of Justice Deferred: Race and the Supreme Court. In 2022, he received the Southern Historical Association's John Hope Franklin Lifetime Achievement Award.

courtland cox, a member of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee in the 1960s, played a key role in establishing the Lowndes County Freedom Party and the national call for Black Power. A founding member of Drum and Spear Bookstore and Publishing Company, he helped organize the Sixth Pan-African Congress and served as the director of the Minority Development Business Agency at the Department of Commerce.

emilye crosby is professor of history at SUNY Geneseo. She is the author of A Little Taste of Freedom: The Black Freedom Struggle in Claiborne County, Mississippi, and editor of Civil Rights History from the Ground Up. She is a founding member of the Movement History Initiative and is currently working on several projects related to the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee.

peter eisenstadt is the author or editor of over twenty books, including Encyclopedia of New York State and Rochdale Village: Robert Moses, 6,000 Families and New York City's Great Experiment in Integrated Housing. With Walter Fluker, he was the associate editor of the five volumes of The Papers of Howard Washington Thurman and coeditor of the four volumes of Walking With God: The Sermon Series of Howard Thurman.

errin haines is a founding mother and editor-at-large for The 19th, a news organization focused on the intersection of gender, politics, and policy. Haines has previously worked at the Los Angeles Times, Washington Post, and Associated Press. A native of Atlanta, she is currently based in Philadelphia.

kate medley is a Durham, North Carolina–based visual journalist documenting the American South. Her work focuses on storytelling and environmental portraiture and often explores issues of social justice and the shifting politics of the region. Medley's debut book of photography, Thank You Please Come Again, was published by The Bitter Southerner in 2023.

judy richardson was on the staff of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) from 1963 to 1966 and was a researcher, series associate producer, and education director for the fourteen-hour PBS series Eyes on the Prize. Her other films include Malcolm X: Make It Plain and Scarred Justice: The Orangeburg Massacre 1968. She is currently on the SNCC Legacy Project Board and the editorial board for the One Person, One Vote pilot collaboration between the SNCC Legacy Project and Duke University. She coedited Hands on the Freedom Plow: Personal Accounts by Women in SNCC.

angela page robbins is an associate professor in the Department of history, Political Science, and International Studies at Meredith College in Raleigh, North Carolina, where she also serves as research faculty for the Universities Studying Slavery initiative. She received her PhD in US history in 2010 from the University of North Carolina–Greensboro, where she specialized in women's history.

william sturkey is an associate professor in the Department of History at the University of Pennsylvania whose research and writing examines race in the postbellum South, the Civil Rights Movement, and African American working-class life.

charles v. taylor jr. has a passion for politics, justice, data analysis, and Mississippi. He was the field director and campaign coordinator for the 2015 Better Schools, Better Jobs Ballot Initiative 42, an effort to amend the state Constitution to require equitable educational funding in Mississippi. A founding member of Freedom Side, Taylor has worked closely with the Mississippi NAACP.

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