Millington Bergeson-Lockwood is a historian of race, politics, and the law in nineteenth century United States history. He is the author of Race Over Party: Black Politics and Partisanship in Late-Nineteenth Century Boston published by the University of North Carolina Press in Spring 2018. For more on black Bostonian struggles against discrimination, see his 2015 article “‘We Do Not Care Particularly About the Skating Rinks’: African American Challenges to Racial Discrimination in Places of Public Amusement in Nineteenth Century Boston, Massachusetts” in the Journal of the Civil War Era.