CANDACE CUNNINGHAM is an assistant professor of history at the University of Arkansas. She specializes in African American history, women and gender studies, and public history. Her research is on the twentieth-century African American experience with a special emphasis on civil rights, education, gender, and the South. A participant in multiple public history projects, Cunningham is an executive board member of the African American Intellectual History Society and has published multiple short pieces in its blog, Black Perspectives.