Carol Anderson is the Robert W. Woodruff Professor of African American Studies at Emory University. She is the author of Eyes Off the Prize: The United Nations and the African-American Struggle for Human Rights, 1944-1955, which was published by Cambridge University Press and awarded both the Gustavus Myers and Myrna Bernath Book Awards; as well as, Bourgeois Radicals: The NAACP and the Struggle for Colonial Liberation, 1941-1960, which was also published by Cambridge. Anderson’s third book, White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of our Racial Divide, won the 2016 National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism and is also a New York Times Bestseller, a New York Times Editor’s Pick, and listed on the Zora List of 100 Best Books by Black Woman Authors since 1850. Her young adult adaptation (with Tonya Bolden) of White Rage, We are Not Yet Equal, was nominated for an NAACP Image Award. Anderson’s fourth book, One Person, No Vote: How Voter Suppression is Destroying our Democracy, was Long-listed for the National Book Award in Non-Fiction and was a finalist for the PEN/Galbraith Book Award in Non-Fiction. Her latest book, The Second: Race and Guns in a Fatally Unequal America explores the anti-Blackness of the Second Amendment and the consequences for African Americans’ citizenship and lives. It has received a starred Kirkus Review and a starred Library Journal Review. She has been elected into the Society of American Historians, named a W.E.B. Du Bois Fellow of the American Academy of Political and Social Sciences, and selected into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Anderson has been elected into the American Philosophical Society. She has also been selected as the recipient of The Ella Baker Lifetime Achievement Award by The Hurston/Wright Foundation.