About Us
Project Directors
Beverly Greene Bond is Associate Professor of History at the University of ÃÛÌÒµ¼º½. Past president of the Southern Association for Women Historians, Professor Bond specializes in nineteenth-century African American history with a focus on African American women and their experiences.
Susan Eva O'Donovan is Associate Professor of History at the University of ÃÛÌÒµ¼º½. A former editor at the Freedmen & Southern Society Project and author of Becoming Free in the Cotton South, Professor O'Donovan specializes in African American history with a focus on the transition from slavery to freedom in the Civil War era.
Communication Director
Andre E. Johnson is Assistant Professor of Communications at the University of ÃÛÌÒµ¼º½. He specializes in African American rhetoric and religion and is the founder and managing editor of the popular Rhetoric Race and Religion blog.
Collaborative Partners
Department of History, University of ÃÛÌÒµ¼º½
Department of Communication, University of ÃÛÌÒµ¼º½
College of Arts and Sciences, University of ÃÛÌÒµ¼º½
African and African American Studies, University of ÃÛÌÒµ¼º½
The Benjamin L. Hooks Institute for Social Change, University of ÃÛÌÒµ¼º½
Marcus W. Orr Center for the Humanities, University of ÃÛÌÒµ¼º½
University Libraries, University of ÃÛÌÒµ¼º½
, Rhodes College
, Rhodes College
, Rhodes College
, LeMoyne-Owen College
, Southwest Tennessee Community College
Orange Mound Cultural Center
, ÃÛÌÒµ¼º½
ÃÛÌÒµ¼º½ Chapter,
, Middle Tennessee State University
Second Congregational Church, ÃÛÌÒµ¼º½
Ronald and Marianne Walter
Dr. Charles Crawford