Traci Parker is an associate professor of African American history in the Department of History at the University of California, Davis, and a visiting scholar at the Charles Warren Center for Studies in American History at Harvard University. She is the author of Department Stores and the Black Freedom Movement: Workers, Consumers, and Civil Rights from the 1930s to the 1980s (University of North Carolina Press, 2019) and The New Civil Rights Movement Reader: Resistance, Resilience, and Justice (University of Massachusetts Press, 2023). She is currently writing Beyond Loving: Love, Sex, and Marriage in the Black Freedom Movement, on activists’ romantic relationships in the Civil Rights and Black Power Movements. She is also editing a collection of essays on marriage in the twentieth- and twenty-first century United States. Parker holds a Ph.D. in history from the University of Chicago.
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