Reinhold Niebuhr (1892 - 1971) was an American theologian, ethicist, public intellectual, political commentator, and professor at Union Theological Seminary.
Hodding Carter III, Starkville, Mississippi, is an American journalist and politician. He is professor emeritus of public policy at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Carter worked for eighteen years as a reporter and editor for the Delta Democrat-Times of Greenville, Mississippi, owned by his father.
Jason Morgan Ward is associate professor of history at Mississippi State University. He is author of Hanging Bridge: Racial Violence and America's Civil Rights Century and Defending White Democracy: The Making of a Segregationist Movement and the Remaking of Racial Politics, 1936 - 1965.
