Fightin for the Double V: African Americans in World War II and the Beginning of the Civil Rights Movement

Trevin J. Jones, focuses on the civil rights movement around the time of World War II, the Double V campaign and the role of African-American soldiers. Jones is a professor of English at St. Louis Community College, where he teaches English composition and literature. His doctoral research and ongoing interests are in African-Ameican male slave narratives and modern-day prison narratives. He specifically examines the intersections of identity, masculinity and spirituality and how the institution of slavery closely mirrors mass incarceration.