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Charles W. McKinney

Charles W. McKinney is the Neville Frierson Bryan Chair of Africana Studies and an associate professor of history at Rhodes College. He is the author of Greater Freedom: The Evolution of the Civil Rights Struggle in Wilson, North Carolina (2010) and the editor, with Aram Goudsouzian, of An Unseen Light: Black Struggles for Freedom in Memphis, Tennessee (2018), an exploration of the Black freedom struggle from Reconstruction to the beginning of the #BlackLivesMatter movement. icon

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