About Us
Project Directors
Beverly Greene Bond is Associate Professor of History at the University of ÁñÁ«ÊÓƵ. 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 ÁñÁ«ÊÓƵ. 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 ÁñÁ«ÊÓƵ. 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 ÁñÁ«ÊÓƵ
Department of Communication, University of ÁñÁ«ÊÓƵ
College of Arts and Sciences, University of ÁñÁ«ÊÓƵ
African and African American Studies, University of ÁñÁ«ÊÓƵ
The Benjamin L. Hooks Institute for Social Change, University of ÁñÁ«ÊÓƵ
Marcus W. Orr Center for the Humanities, University of ÁñÁ«ÊÓƵ
University Libraries, University of ÁñÁ«ÊÓƵ
, Rhodes College
, Rhodes College
, Rhodes College
, LeMoyne-Owen College
, Southwest Tennessee Community College
Orange Mound Cultural Center
, ÁñÁ«ÊÓƵ
ÁñÁ«ÊÓƵ Chapter,
, Middle Tennessee State University
Second Congregational Church, ÁñÁ«ÊÓƵ
Ronald and Marianne Walter
Dr. Charles Crawford