Provides a collection of new essays and columns published in the wake of the Emanuel AME Church massacre in Charleston, South Carolina, along with selected excerpts from key existing scholarly books and general-interest articles. The collection draws from a variety of disciplines and includes a selected and annotated bibliography for further reading.

Chad Williams (Editor)
CHAD WILLIAMS is an associate professor and chair of African and Afro-American studies at Brandeis University and is the author of Torchbearers of Democracy: African American Soldiers in the World War I Era.

Kidada Williams (Editor)
KIDADA E. WILLIAMS is an associate professor of history at Wayne State University and the author of They Left Great Marks on Me: African American Testimonies of Racial Violence from Emancipation to World War I.

Keisha Blain (Editor)
KEISHA N. BLAIN is assistant professor of history at the University of Iowa. Her work has been published in the Journal of Social History; Souls: A Critical Journal of Black Politics, Culture, and Society; and Palimpsest: A Journal on Women, Gender, and the Black International.