Maceo Crenshaw Dailey Jr. (d. 2015) was the first director of African American Studies at the University of Texas at El Paso. Recognized nationally for his scholarship, Dailey published numerous chapters, essays, articles, and books on African American history, and he served as assistant editor for The Journal of Negro History. He was past chair of Humanities Texas and the Philosophical Society of Texas.
Will Guzmán is professor of history at Prairie View A&M University and is author of the award-winning Civil Rights in the Texas Borderlands: Dr. Lawrence A. Nixon and Black Activism. His research interests are in African American and Afro–Puerto Rican history. He lives in Prairie View, Texas.
David H. Jackson Jr. is associate provost for Graduate Education and dean of the School of Graduate Studies & Research at Florida A&M University. A prolific scholar of African American studies, he has published nearly two dozen scholarly articles, book chapters, and book reviews; has presented papers at numerous professional conferences; and is the author or editor of five scholarly books, the most recent of which is Booker T. Washington and the Struggle against White Supremacy: The Southern Educational Tours, 1908–1912. He lives in Tallahassee, Florida.
