Waldo E. Martin, Jr., is a professor of history at the University of California, Berkeley. His scholarly and teaching interests include modern American history and culture with an emphasis on the nineteenth and twentieth centuries; his principal areas of research and writing are African American intellectual and cultural history. He is the author of No Coward Soldiers: Black Cultural Politics in Postwar America and The Mind of Frederick Douglass. Waldo has published numerous articles and lectured widely on Frederick Douglass and on modern African American cultural and intellectual history.
