Up Against the Wall: Violence in the Making and Unmaking of the Black Panther Party,
(University of Arkansas Press, 2006). *Choice Outstanding Academic Book Award.
“Dare to Struggle: A History of the Black Power Movement,” (Rowman and Littlefield Press,
forthcoming 2020). Manuscript submitted to publisher in June 2019. Books in Progress:
“The Valiant Soldier: A Biography of Clyde Kennard.” Kennard was a World War II and Korean War veteran who became the first African American to attempt to enroll at the University of Southern Mississippi. He was imprisoned for his activism and later died as a result of his imprisonment.
“Dare to Win: A History of the San Francisco 8.” The SF8 are former members of the Black Panther Party who were arrested in 2007 after being charged with the 1971 homicide of a San Francisco police officer. After being held on a combined $13 million in bail, serving nearly a year in the SF County jail, and working through four years of discovery motions, the trial court dismissed the charges against the men in 2011.
“Africana Studies and Oral History: A Critical Assessment,” in Jeanette R. Davidson, ed., African American Studies (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, revised for second edition, forthcoming 2020).
“The Black Panther Party in Summation,” in The Black Panther Party in a City Near You, (University of Georgia Press, 2018).
“An Interview with Harold Taylor,” Journal of African American Studies (2017) 21: 159-171. “Africana Studies and Oral History: A Critical Assessment,” in Jeanette R. Davidson, ed.,
African American Studies (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2010), pp.171-193.
“The Black Panthers and the Vietnam War,” in Andrew Wiest et al., eds. America and the Vietnam War: Re-Examining the Culture and History of a Generation (Routledge Press, December 2009), pp. 101-120.
Introduction in Orissa Arend, Showdown in Desire: The Black Panthers Take a Stand in New Orleans (University of Arkansas Press, 2009), pp. xvii-xxvi.
Article: “On Violence and Nonviolence: The Civil Rights Movement in Mississippi,” in Mississippi History Now, an online publication of the Mississippi Historical Society, February 2002.
Encyclopedia Entries:
Entry on Black Panther Party co-founder BOBBY SEALE in Black Power Encyclopedia: From
the Black Panthers to Stokely Carmichael, published by ABC-CLIO. 10 pages. (2018) Entry on the BLACK PANTHER PARTY in Black Power Encyclopedia: From the Black
Panthers to Stokely Carmichael, published by ABC-CLIO. 12 pages. (2018)
“Fard Muhammad,” “Elijah Muhammad,” “Malcolm X,” “Martin Luther King, Jr.” in Phyllis
Jestice, editor, Holy People of the World: A Cross-cultural Encyclopedia, 2004.
“Republic of New Afrika,” “Revolutionary Action Movement,” “Socialist Worker’s Party,” “The Mafia,” “Reefer,” “Black Liberation Army,” “Farrakhan,” “Louis X,” “Judaism,” and “The Black Panther Party,” in Robert L. Jenkins and Mfanya Tryman, eds., The Encyclopedia of Malcolm X, 2002.
“The Political Life of Booker T. Washington,” in Salem Press, Encyclopedia of Civil Rights, 1998.
Book Reviews:
Review, David T. Beito and Linda Royster Beito, T.R.M. Howard: Doctor, Entrepreneur, Civil Rights Pioneer, Journal of African American History (forthcoming 2020).
Review, Andrew Witt, The Black Panthers in the Midwest: The Community Programs and Services of the Black Panther Party in Milwaukee, 1966-1977, Journal of American History, September 2009, Vol. 96, issue #2.
Review, Simon Wendt, The Spirit and the Shotgun: Armed Resistance and the Struggle for Civil Rights, Journal of Southern History, 2008.
Review, Pure Fire: Self-Defense as Activism in the Civil Rights Era in Journal of Mississippi History, 2008.
Review, Timothy B. Tyson, Radio Free Dixie: Robert F. Williams & the Roots of Black Power, in Florida Historical Quarterly, Spring 2002.
Review, Frederick Wirt, “We Ain’t What We Was”: Civil Rights in the New South, in Journal of Mississippi History, 2000.
Review, Cynthia Griggs, Soon We Will Not Cry: The Liberation of Ruby Doris Smith Robinson, in Florida Historical Quarterly, Winter 1999.
Review, Robert C. Smith, Racism in the Post-Civil Rights Era: Now You See It, Now You Don’t, in Journal of Mississippi History, 1997.
Review, Gerald Smith, A Black Educator in the Segregated South: Kentucky’s Rufus B. Atwood, in Journal of Mississippi History, 1996.
Film/Media:
Executive Producer & Historian, Union Time Fighting for Workers Rights, a documentary film that tells the triumphant story of Local 1208, a newly created union among workers at the Tarheel, North Carolina Smithfield Pork Processing Plant, 2016
DRUM Magazine, “50th Anniversary Commemoration of Freedom Summer,” July 2014
Script Writer, Producer, and Narrator of Clyde Kennard and the Integration of the University of
Southern Mississippi, a short documentary on the attempted integration of USM, Spring 2008.
Produced Mississippi Moments installments. These are four-minute radio clips that highlight various aspects of Mississippi history and are aired on MPR in conjunction with the USM Center for Oral History and Cultural Heritage, 2006-2008.
“Ordinary People Living Extraordinary Lives: The Civil Rights Movement in Mississippi,” an interactive CD-ROM project, Spring 2001.
