ROBERT COHEN is a historian of social protest, African American history, and student politics, who has written extensively on 1960s America. His most recent book, Confronting Jim Crow: Race, Memory, and the University of Georgia in the Twentieth Century won the Lillian Smith Book Award. His other works on racism and anti-racist protest in the South include Howard Zinn's Southern Diary: Civil Rights, Sit-ins, and Black Women's Student Activism (Georgia) and Rebellion in Black and White: Southern Student Activism in the 1960s, coedited by David J. Snyder. He lives and writes in New York.