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First Name
Candace
Last Name
Cunningham
Country
United States
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University of Arkansas, Fayetteville
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Keywords
education history, African American history, black history, U.S. South, civil rights, civil rights movement, South Carolina, teachers, educators, public history, digital history, digital humanities
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About Me

Candace Cunningham is an Assistant Professor of History at the University of Arkansas where she teaches courses in American history and African American history. She previously worked as an Assistant Professor of Public History at Florida Atlantic University. Before that she taught at Stetson University as the Brown Fellow in Public History. She earned her M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of South Carolina. Her research is on the 20th century African American experience with a special emphasis on civil rights, education, gender, and the South. She recently published an article in the History of Education. Her book is currently under contract with the University of Georgia Press.

Recent Publications

“Hell Is Popping Here in South Carolina”: Orangeburg County Black Teachers and Their Community in the Immediate Post-Brown Era. History of Education Quarterly, 61(1), 35-62.

“John Potts and Radical Student Activism,” Black Perspectives, November 1, 2023.

“Black Capitalism, Underground Economies, and the Great Depression,” Black Perspectives, March 21, 2023.

“HBCUs and the Red Scare,” Black Perspectives, February 24, 2023.

“Albertha Johnston Murray: The Life of a Local Public Intellectual,” Black Perspectives, December 2, 2022.

“From Racial Uplift to Protest Politics: South Carolina’s Teacher Salary Equalization Campaign,” February 2017, The Columbia Star.

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Country Focus
Expertise by Geography
United States
Expertise by Chronology
20th century
Expertise by Topic
Public History, Race, Women