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Delores P. Aldridge is Grace Towns Professor of Sociology and African American Studies at Emory University. She is the author of Focusing: Black Male-Female Relationships (1995) and co-editor, with Carlene Young, of Out of the Revolution: The Development of Africana Studies (2000). James D. Anderson is Professor of Educational Policy and Professor of History as well as Head of the Department of Educational Policy Studies at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. His book, The Education of Blacks in the South, 1850–1935 won the Outstanding Book Award from the American Education Research Association in 1990. Jeffrey Elton Anderson is an Assistant Professor of History at Middle Georgia College. His forthcoming work is tentatively titled Conjure in African American Society. Abel A. Bartley is Associate Professor of African American and Urban History, and Director of the Pan-African Center for Community Studies at the University of Akron. He is the author of Keeping the Faith: Race Politics and Social Development in Jacksonville, Florida 1940–1970 (2000). Another book on the history of blacks in Akron, Ohio is forthcoming in 2005. Marcellus C. Barksdale is Professor of History and Director of the African American Studies Program at Morehouse College. His articles and essays have appeared in the Journal of Social and Behavioral Sciences and the Journal of Negro ... log in or subscribe to read full text