Louis R. Harlan is professor of history at the University of Maryland. He is the author of Separate and Unequal: Public School Campaigns and Racism in the Southern Seaboard States, 1901-1915 (1958), and Booker T. Washington: The Making of a Black Leader, 1856-1901 (1972). Pete Daniel is assistant professor of history at the University of Tennessee and author of The Shadow of Slavery: Peonage in the South, 1901-1969 (1972). Stuart B. Kaufman is assistant professor of history at the University of Maryland. His study, Samuel Gompers and the Origins of the American Federation of Labor, 1848-1896. is scheduled for publication in 1973. Raymond W. Smock is instructor in history at the University of Maryland. William M. Welty is assistant professor of history at Pace College.