General Editors
Henry Louis Gates Jr.
W. E. B. Du Bois Professor of Humanities
Chair of the Department of African and African American Studies
Director of the W. E. B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research
Harvard University
Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham
Victor S. Thomas Professor of History and of African and African American Studies
Harvard University
Executive Editors
Karen C. C. Dalton
Assistant Director of the W. E. B. Du Bois Institute
Director and Curator of the Image of the Black
in Western Art Project
Harvard University
Richard Newman
Research and Fellows Officer,
W. E. B. Du Bois Institute
Harvard University
Managing Editor
John K. Bollard
Associate Editors / Senior Writers
Sholomo B. Levy
Research Fellow, W. E. B. Du Bois Institute
Steven J. Niven
Research Fellow, W. E. B. Du Bois Institute
Lisa E. Rivo
Research Fellow, W. E. B. Du Bois Institute