Today’s conversation is with Professor Charles McKinney, author of the 2010 book Greater Freedom: The Evolution of Civil Rights Struggle in Wilson, North Carolina and the co-editor of two fantastic volumes: An Unseen Light: Black Struggles for Freedom in Memphis, Tennessee with Aram Goudsouzian from 2018 and the recently released From Rights to Lives: The Evolution of Black Freedom Struggle with Françoise Hamlin. McKinney is an historian by training and is one of the founding faculty members in the Department of Africana Studies at Rhodes College in Memphis, Tennessee.