Omar H. Ali is associate professor of African American history at the University of North Carolina, Greensboro. A graduate of the London School of Economics and Political Science, he received his Ph.D. in History from Columbia University and is author of In the Balance of Power: Independent Black Politics and Third Party Movements in the United States.
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