George Derek Musgrove, Ph.D. is an Associate Professor of History and Africana Studies at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County. He is the author of Rumor, Repression, and Racial Politics: How the Harassment of Black Elected Officials Shaped Post-Civil Rights America (U. of Georgia, 2012), and co-author, with Chris Myers Asch, of Chocolate City, A History of Race and Democracy in the Nation’s Capital (UNC, 2017). His latest project is “Black Power in Washington, D.C.” a web-based map of Black Power activism in the nation’s capital between 1961 and 1998.

Dr. Musgrove is the co-author, Chocolate City: A History of Race and Democracy in the Nation’s Capital, https://uncpress.org/book/9781469654720/chocolate-city/ Author, Rumor, Repression, and Racial Politics: How the Harassment of Black Elected Officials Shaped Post-Civil Rights America, http://www.ugapress.org/index.php/books/rumor_repression
For local DC folks, you can pick the book up from Sankofa bookstore and cafe on Georgia Ave.: https://www.events.sankofa.com/books

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