JACQUELINE JONES ROYSTER is professor emerita at the Ohio State University and Georgia Institute of Technology. She is the author and coauthor of several books, including Traces of a Stream: Literacy and Social Change Among African American Women and Making the World a Better Place: African American Women Advocates, Activists, and Leaders, 1773-1900. She is the editor of Southern Horrors and Other Writings: The Anti-Lynching Campaign of Ida B. Wells, 1892-1900 and Critical Inquiries: Readings on Culture and Community, and the coeditor of Feminist Rhetorical Studies: New Horizons for Rhetoric, Composition, and Literacy and Double-Stitch: Black Women Write About Mothers and Daughters. She lives and writes in Atlanta.