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.