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acknowledgements

Project Directors
William Chafe, Raymond Gavins, and Bob Korstad

Founding Executive Director, Center for Documentary Studies
Iris Tillman Hill

Project Staff

Graduate Research Coordinators:
Leslie Brown, Alex Byrd, Paul Ortiz, and Annie Valk

Graduate and Undergraduate Research Assistants:
Greta Ai-Yu-Niu, Chris Ross, Arthur Smith, Paul Ortiz, Blair Murphy, Aminah Pilgrim, Keisha Roberts, Luba V. Zakharov, Josh Levinson, Keith Townsend, David Wu, John Hayes, Homer D. Hill, Mendi Drayton, Latasha Davidson, Jason Ward, Serena Rhodie, Kimberely Parker, and Carson Harkraden, with support by Carolyn Wiggleton and Darnell Arnoult.

Advisors and Planners

Research
Project Conceptualization:
Vicki Crawford, John Frey, Jacquelyn Hall, Robin D. G. Kelley, Julius Scott, and colleagues at Jackson State University

National Endowment for the Humanities Research Conference (North Carolina Central University, 1991):
Beverly Jones, Freddie Parker, with presentations by Helen G. Edmonds, John Hope Franklin, Leon Litwack, Elsa Barkely Brown, Robin D. G. Kelley, Nan Woodruff, Gavin Wright, Joe William Trotter, Evelyn Brooks Higginobotham, Trudier Harris, and Richard Powell and assistance by Vicki Crawford, Mary Ellen Curtin, Darnell Arnoult, and Kira Dirlik.

Research Project Advisory Board:
Beverly Jones, Jessie Dent, Mary Coleman, Alfredteen Harrison, Charles Fyre, and William Chafe, Raymond Gavins, Iris Tillman Hill, and Robert Korstad

Curriculum Development
National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Institute (Duke University, 1992):
With presentations by Alex Harris, Lynn Marshall-Linnemeier, Tom Whiteside, R. Kelly Bryant Jr., Ginny Daley, Beverly Jones, Pete Daniel, Tera Hunter, Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, Bob Hall, James Anderson, Alfred Reid, Gavin Wright, Robert Byrd, Robin D. G. Kelley, Valeria Lee, Charles Reagan Wilson, Christina Greene, Richard Powell, Richard Dozier, Larry Adelman, Alex Albright, Glenn Hinson, Charles Fyre, Karen Fields, Thomas Adams, Jacqueline Rouse, John Hope Franklin, Margaret Walker Alexander, Trudier Harris, Richard Long, Dorothy Spruill Redford, Sharon Harley, and Thadious Davis.

Curriculum Development Project:
Carolyn Denard, Alfredteen Harrison, Beverly Jones, Mary Coleman, Tenita Philyam, and Alma Williams

"Remembering Jim Crow" Publication

Senior Editors:
William H. Chafe, Raymond Gavins, and Robert Korstad

Associate Editors:
Paul Ortiz, Robert Parrish, Jennifer Ritterhouse, Keisha Roberts, and Nicole Waligora-Davis

Interviewers and Contacts

1993 Graduate Student Interviewers:
Chris Stewart, Sonya Ramsey, Kara Miles, Rhonda Mawhood, Karen Ferguson, and William Crumpton

1993 Primary Community and Institutional Contacts:
Cary R. Grant and Dorothy White Cannon, Concerned Citizens of Tillery, Tillery Community Center, Tillery, North Carolina; Tillery Open Minded Seniors; Vivian Wynn, Franklinton Center at Bricks, Inc.; Mrs. Wills, Bricks School Club; Willie Powell, Rocky Mt. Opportunities Industrialization Center; Vermelle Ely, Second Ward High School Alumni Association, Charlotte, North Carolina; Jesse Dent, Johnson C. Smith University; Mary White, Grace George, and Ben A. Watford, James City Historical Society, New Bern, North Carolina; Marea K. Foster and Joseph Patterson, Memories of New Bern, New Bern, North Carolina; Joanne Gwaltney, New Bern Historical Society; Thelma Chadwick, United Senior Services, Inc., New Bern, North Carolina; David Cecelski, Institute for Southern Studies, Durham, North Carolina; Dorothy Phelps Jones and Doris Terry Williams, St. Joseph’s Historical Foundation, Durham, North Carolina; R. Kelly Bryant Jr.; Gwen Roundtree, Little River Community Center; Andre Vann, Alex Rivera, and Howard Fitts, North Carolina Central University.

1994 Graduate Student Interviewers:
Mausiki Stacey Scales, Paul Ortiz, Tywanna Whorley, Charles H. Houston Jr., Gregory Hunter, Sally Graham, Tunga White, Felix Armfield, Katherine Ellis, and Michelle Mitchell.

1994 Primary Community and Institutional Contacts:
Horace Huntley, University of Alabama–Birmingham and the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute; Carolyn Ray, Miles College; Larry Henderson, Birmingham, Alabama; Willie Fluker and Frank J. Toland, Department of History, Tuskegee University; Daniel T. Williams, Hollis Baker Frissell Library, Tuskegee University; James Eaton, Black Archives Research Center, Florida A & M University; Shirley and Charles Sherrod, Federation of Southern Cooperatives, Albany, Georgia; Barbara A. Woods and Willie Legette, Department of Political Science and History, South Carolina State University; Lesley Williams, McKissick Museum, University of South Carolina, Columbia; Frank Solomon, African American Culture Center, Allendale, South Carolina; Alice Doctor Waring and John K. Adams, Scott’s Branch “76” Foundation, Inc., Summerton, South Carolina; Vennie Deas Moore, independent researcher; Veronica Gerald, Coastal Carolina College; Florence Borders and Charles Frye, Center for African and African American Studies, Southern University at New Orleans; Shereen Minvielle, Shadows-on-the Teche, New Iberia, Louisiana; Capt. Nathaniel Mitchell, Iberia Parish and Corrections; and Toby Dopsit.

1995 Graduate Student Interviewers:
Mausiki Stacey Scales, Doris Dixon, Paul Ortiz, Laurie Green, Blair Murphy, Kisha Turner, and Mary Herbert

1995 Primary Community and Institutional Contacts:
Geraldine Davidson, Fargo Agricultural School Museum, Brinkley, Arkansas; Calvin King and Marvin Schwartz, Arkansas Land and Farm Development Corporation, Brinkley, Arkansas; Paula Hickey, Delta Cultural Center, Helena, Arkansas; Freeman McKindra, Winthrop Rockefeller Foundation, Little Rock, Arkansas; Willard B. Gatewood, University of Arkansas; Rev. Willie C. Tims, Magnolia, Arkansas; Forrest City Senior Care, Forrest City, Arkansas; Rev. Randolph Meade Walker and Barbara S. Frankle, Le Moyne Owen College, Memphis, Tennessee; Steven J. Ross, Allison Graham, and Charles Crawford, University of Memphis; Michael Honey, University of Washington-Tacoma; Judy Peiser, Center for Southern Folklore, Memphis, Tennessee; Andrew Ewing, Arthur Kinnard, and Robert Moore, Mississippi Valley State University; Chiquita Willis, University of Mississippi; Peter Daniel, National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.; Charles Payne, Northwestern University; Tommy Lee Bogger, Norfolk State University; Essie Dozier, Virginia Historical and Genealogical Society, Tidewater Chapter; Clarice Sharp; and Rev. A. M. Lawson

Additional Interviewers:
Alex Byrd in Muhlenburg County, Kentucky, with assistance from Bethal Baptist Church in Drakesboro; Wesley Chapel AME Zion Church in Greenville; Raymond and Erletta Robinson; Maggie Dulin; James and Elcie Evans; and Aldrich Horton

Photographs, Transcripts, and Archiving

Photographs:
Several thousand photographs were copied by the graduate student researchers during the fieldwork stage. We thank the many families who shared their precious albums with us, and are especially grateful to Larry Henderson of Birmingham, Alabama. Photographs for Remembering Jim Crow and the Trying Not to Forget exhibition were selected by Susan Page and Keisha Roberts.

Transcriptions:
Cathy Mann, Frances Copeland, and Technitype Transcripts, and students of Sarah Wilkerson-Freeman at Arkansas State University

Archivists:
Ginney Daley, Bob Byrd, Karen L. Jefferson, Sharon Knapp, and Lisa Stark of Duke University’s Special Collections Library

Web Site Design, Programming, and Photo Editing:
Chris Sims

Web Site Editorial Team:
Iris Tillman Hill, Bob Korstad, and Kathleen Roberts