David Goldberg’s book Black Power at Work: Community Control, Affirmative Action, and the Construction Industry, chronicles the history of direct action campaigns to open up the construction industry to black workers in the 1960s and 1970s. He is an assistant professor of Africana Studies at Wayne University and the director of Beyond the Urban Crisis: The Detroit Civil rights, Community Activism, and Labor History Project.

Laura Warren Hill currently serves as an Associate Professor of Human Development in the College of Community and Public Affairs at Binghamton University. She is the author of Strike the Hammer: The Black Freedom Struggle in Rochester, NY, 1940-1970, the co-editor of The Business of Black Power: Community Development, Capitalism and Corporate Responsibility in Postwar America, and the author of several articles on Malcolm X's relationship with the Rochester, NY community. Dr. Hill is a co-founder of the Upstate New York Policing Research Consortium (UNY-PRC) which seeks to create greater accountability in policing through research and action in upstate New York communities. Her current project examines the life and times of Betty Tyson, a Rochester woman who spent 25 years in New York's Bedford Hills for a murder she did not commit before she was exonerated and released in 1998.

Dr. Rabig received her PhD in 2007 from the University of Pennsylvania and has completed postdoctoral fellowships at the Center for the Study of African American Politics and the Frederick Douglass Institute for African and African American Studies. Her research analyzes civil rights and Black power activists’ attempts to remake local politics and federal policy in the aftermath of the 1960s urban uprisings. An adapted version of her doctoral dissertation “The Fixers: Devolution, Development, and Civil Society in Newark, New Jersey, 1960-1990′′ appears in Black Power at Work: Community Control and Affirmative Action in the Construction Industry, 1960s-70s.