University Professor of history at Kent State University, August Meier is author or editor of ten books, including Negro Thought in America, 1880-1915 (1965), From Plantation to Ghetto (1976, with Elliott Rudwick), and Black History and the Historical Profession, 1915-1980 (1986, with Elliott Rudwick).
John H. Bracey Jr. is professor of Afro-American studies at teh University of Massachusetts Amherst.