Paul Buhle is the author or editor of more than three-dozen books. Formerly a Senior Lecturer at Brown University, he produces radical comics today. He founded the SDS Journal Radical America and the archive Oral History of the American Left and, with Mari Jo Buhle, is coeditor of the Encyclopedia of the American Left. He lives in Madison, Wisconsin.

Robin D.G. Kelley is Professor of US History at UCLA. His books include Africa Speaks, America Answers!: Modern Jazz in Revolutionary Times.

Lawrence Ware is a Lecturer in the Department of Philosophy at Oklahoma State University.