Carol Polsgrove, author of Divided Minds: Intellectuals and the Civil Rights Movement, is a journalism professor at Indiana University, Bloomington. She grew up in Nigeria, then a British colony. More by Carol Polsgrove

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Carol Polsgrove, author of Divided Minds: Intellectuals and the Civil Rights Movement, is a journalism professor at Indiana University, Bloomington. She grew up in Nigeria, then a British colony. More by Carol Polsgrove