Quintard Taylor is the Scott and Dorothy Bullitt Professor of American History and professor emeritus at the University of Washington. Quin'Nita Cobbins-Modica is assistant professor of history at Seattle Pacific University. Albert S. Broussard is Cornerstone Faculty Fellow and professor of history at Texas A&M University. Norm Rice was Seattle's mayor from 1990 to 1997.
Quin'Nita Cobbins-Modica is visiting assistant professor of history at the University of Oregon and executive director of BlackPast.org. She is the coauthor of Seattle on the Spot: The Photographs of Al Smith (MOHAI/UWP, 2018). Quin'Nita Cobbins-Modica received her PhD from the University of Washington in 2018. This is her first book.
Norm Rice was mayor of Seattle from 1990 to 1997. A Seattle resident for more than 50 years, he earned his bachelor's and master's degrees at the University of Washington and was the first elected African American mayor of Seattle.
Albert S. Broussard is professor of history at Texas A&M University. He is the author of several books, including African American Odyssey: The Stewarts, 1853-1963 (University Press of Kansas, 1998) and Black San Francisco: The Struggle for Racial Equality in the West, 1900-1954 (University Press of Kansas, 1993).