Keona K. Ervin is assistant professor of History at the University of Missouri-Columbia. She received her PhD in History from Washington University in St. Louis in 2009. Professor Ervin’s main research and teaching areas are black freedom movement studies, urban history, black women’s history, and US labor and working-class history. She is the author of the forthcoming
Gateway to Equality: Black Women and the Struggle for Economic Justice in St. Louis (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky). She has published articles and reviews in academic venues including
International Labor and Working-Class History,
Journal of Civil and Human Rights,
Souls: A Critical Journal of Black Politics, Culture and Society,
Journal of Southern History,
Economic History Review, and
Journal of American Ethnic History.