Ted Ownby is William F. Winter Professor of History and professor of southern studies at the University of Mississippi. He is editor of The Role of Ideas in the Civil Rights South, Manners and Southern History, The Civil Rights Movement in Mississippi, and Black and White: Cultural Interaction in the Antebellum South and coeditor of Clothing and Fashion in Southern History, The Mississippi Encyclopedia, and Southern Religion, Southern Culture: Essays Honoring Charles Reagan Wilson, all published by University Press of Mississippi. Charles Reagan Wilson retired as the Kelly Gene Cook Chair of History and Southern Studies at the University of Mississippi and is author of multiple works of southern history and general editor of The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture. Ann J. Abadie (1939-2024) was associate director emerita of the Center for the Study of Southern Culture at the University of Mississippi as well as coeditor of numerous scholarly collections from the Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha Conference and other books published by University Press of Mississippi. Odie Lindsey teaches at Vanderbilt University and is author of We Come to Our Senses and other works of fiction. James G. Thomas, Jr., is associate director for publications at the University of Mississippi's Center for the Study of Southern Culture. He is an editor of the twenty-four-volume New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture and coeditor (with Jay Watson) of multiple volumes in the Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha Series; and editor of Conversations with Barry Hannah. His work has appeared in Ethnic Heritage in Mississippi: The Twentieth Century, Southern Cultures, Southern Quarterly, and elsewhere.