ROBERT COHEN is a historian of social protest, African American history, and student politics who has written extensively on 1960s America. His most recent book, Confronting Jim Crow: Race, Memory, and the University of Georgia in the Twentieth Century, won the Lillian Smith Book Award. His other works on racism and antiracist protest in the South include Howard Zinn's Southern Diary: Civil Rights, Sit-ins, and Black Women's Student Activism and Rebellion in Black and White: Southern Student Activism in the 1960s, coedited by David J. Snyder. He lives and writes in New York.