Everyone Helped His Neighbor

Lu Ann Jones is the author of Mama Learned Us to Work: Farm Women in the New South, inspired by the Oral History of Southern Agriculture Project. She is a historian for a federal agency and lives in Washington, DC.

As an oral historian Amy Glass worked on numerous projects with the Southern Oral History Program at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, including Lifeways of the Outer Banks which is housed at the Outer Banks History Center in Manteo. She lives in Durham, North Carolina.

Historian David S. Cecelski is author of The Waterman's Song: Slavery and Freedom in Maritime North Carolina and co-editor (with Timothy B. Tyson) of Democracy Betrayed: The Wilmington Race Riot of 1898 and Its Legacy.