Omar H. Ali, Guest Editor

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Click to increase image sizeClick to decrease image size Notes 1. I would like to thank Manning Marable for inviting me to edit this special issue of Souls,Adina Popescu for pulling together all of its various threads in the most professional and congenial way, and Elizabeth Schad for her special assistance at Taylor & Francis. 2. For a study of African Americans and the Liberty Party, see Charles Wesley, “The Participation of Negroes in Anti–Slavery Political Parties,” in Abolitionism and American Politics and Government, John R. McKivigan, ed. (New York & London: Garland Publishing, 1999). For the most comprehensive study of Reconstruction, see Eric Foner Reconstruction: America's Unfinished Revolution, 1863–1877 (New York: Harper & Row, 1988). For studies on the role of Black independents in the 1930s, see Robin D. G. Kelley, Hammer and Hoe: Alabama Communists During the Great Depression (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1990) and Mark Naison, Communists in Harlem During the Depression (New York: Grove Press, 1985). For African Americans and third parties in the 1960s, see Hanes Walton, Jr., Black Political Parties: An Historical and Political Analysis(New York: Free Press, 1972) and Omar H. Ali, “Perot movement,” in History in Dispute: American Social and Political Movements, 1945–2000, Robert J. Allison, ed. (Detroit: St. James Press, 2000); and for the current activities of Black independents, see Jacqueline Salit, “Unpopular Partnerships (Bloomberg's Dilemma),” The Neo–Independent: The Politics of Becoming, Vol. 1, No. 1 (Spring 2004), 13–21. 3. David A. Bositis, Diverging Generations: The Transformation of African American Policy Views (Washington, D.C.: Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies, 2001).