David Chappell is author of Inside Agitators: White Southerners in the Civil Rights Movement (Johns Hopkins, 1994), A Stone of Hope: Prophetic Religion and the Death of Jim Crow (North Carolina, 2004), and Waking from the Dream: The Struggle for Civil Rights in the Shadow of Martin Luther King (Random House, 2014). His articles, essays, and reviews have appeared in The New York Times, Washington Post, Chicago Tribune, Newsday, The Raleigh News and Observer, The Nation On-Line, The World Policy Journal, Tempo (Rio de Janeiro), Sekai (Tokyo), In These Times, Books and Culture, The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, Historically Speaking, The African Methodist Episcopal Church Review, Journal of American Studies, Journal of the Historical Society, and The African American Review. He teaches history at the University of Oklahoma.