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Fans of memoirs by Willie Morris and Anthony Walton; readers of contemporary American history and civil rights narratives by writers like Melissa Fay Green, Alex Kotlowitz, and Diane McWhorter.

Timothy B. Tyson is a professor of Afro-American studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He is a leading revisionist historian of the civil rights movement and author of the award-winning Radio Free Dixie: Robert F. Williams and the Roots of Black Power. He is also the coeditor of and a contributor to Democracy Betrayed: The Wilmington Race Riot of 1898 and Its Legacy.