CLAUDRENA N. HAROLD is an associate professor of history at the University of Virginia. She is the author of The Rise and Fall of the Garvey Movement in the Urban South, 1918–1942 and coeditor, with Deborah E. McDowell and Juan Battle, of The Punitive Turn: New Approaches to Race and Incarceration.

An important addition to the field because it argues that black nationalist politics, labor activism, and political organizing among black southerners were also exemplary of the New Negro era . . . Harold’s text necessarily expands our understandings of the New Negro era and black southerners, who a generation later became the architects of the civil rights movement.

CLAUDRENA N. HAROLD is an associate professor of history at the University of Virginia. She is the author of The Rise and Fall of the Garvey Movement in the Urban South, 1918–1942 and coeditor, with Deborah E. McDowell and Juan Battle, of The Punitive Turn: New Approaches to Race and Incarceration.

An important addition to the field because it argues that black nationalist politics, labor activism, and political organizing among black southerners were also exemplary of the New Negro era . . . Harold’s text necessarily expands our understandings of the New Negro era and black southerners, who a generation later became the architects of the civil rights movement.

CLAUDRENA N. HAROLD is an associate professor of history at the University of Virginia. She is the author of The Rise and Fall of the Garvey Movement in the Urban South, 1918–1942 and coeditor, with Deborah E. McDowell and Juan Battle, of The Punitive Turn: New Approaches to Race and Incarceration.

An important addition to the field because it argues that black nationalist politics, labor activism, and political organizing among black southerners were also exemplary of the New Negro era . . . Harold’s text necessarily expands our understandings of the New Negro era and black southerners, who a generation later became the architects of the civil rights movement.