Authors

Bill Bigelow is curriculum editor of Rethinking Schools magazine and co-director of the Zinn Education Project. He is the author and co-editor of numerous publications including Rethinking Columbus: The Next 500 Years and A People’s Curriculum for the Earth: Teaching Climate Change and the Environmental Crisis.

Jeff Biggers is a journalist and author of The United States of Appalachia: How Southern Mountaineers Brought Independence, Culture, and Enlightenment to America (Counterpoint); Reckoning at Eagle Creek: The Secret Legacy of Coal in the Heartland (Nation Books); and State Out of the Union: Arizona and the Final Showdown Over the American Dream (Nation Books).

Linda Christensen has taught high school language arts in Portland, Oregon for almost 40 years. She is the author of Reading, Writing, and Rising Up: Teaching about Social Justice and the Power of the Written Word and Teaching for Joy and Justice: Re-imagining the Language Arts Classroom, both published by Rethinking Schools.

Charles E. Cobb Jr. is a former field secretary of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), a journalist, and the author of a number of books including This Nonviolent Stuff’ll Get You Killed: How Guns Made the Civil Rights Movement Possible (Basic Books, 2014). 

Emilye Crosby is a professor of history and the coordinator of Black Studies at SUNY Geneseo. She is the author of A Little Taste of Freedom (University of North Carolina Press) and the editor of Civil Rights History from the Ground Up (University of Georgia Press).

Norm Diamond is an Oregon Trustee of the Pacific Northwest Labor History Association. He was president of Pacific Northwest Labor College.

Bill Fletcher Jr. is a longtime labor, racial justice and international activist. Fletcher is an editorial board member and columnist for BlackCommentator.com and a senior scholar for the Institute for Policy Studies in Washington, D.C.

Jesse Hagopian teaches history and is the co-adviser to the Black Student Union at Garfield High School–the site of the historic boycott of the MAP test in 2013. Hagopian an associate editor for the social justice periodical Rethinking Schools and is the editor of More Than a Score: The New Uprising Against High-Stakes Testing.