Portrait of a Scientific Racist: Alfred Holt Stone of Mississippi

Acknowledgments

xiii Acknowledgments Many persons have helped me with the research for this book. I would like to acknowledge in particular the assistance of Margaret Burri in the Milton S. Eisenhower Library at the Johns Hopkins University; Petrina Jackson and Susette Newberry in the Kroch Library at Cornell University; Bruce Kirby at the Library of Congress; Joseph D. Schwartz, who works at the National Archives in College Park, Maryland; John David Smith, the Charles H. Stone Distinguished Professor of American History at University of North Carolina–Charlotte; and John Strom at the Carnegie Institution of Washington . I would also like to thank Tom Henderson for allowing me access to the library at Millsaps. In addition, I would like to acknowledge the steady help, friendly smiles, and sage advice of people at the Mississippi Department of Archives and History in Jackson: Clinton Bagley, Nancy Bounds, Joyce Dixon-Lawson, Elbert Hilliard, Hank Holmes, Grady Howell, Jean Hudspeth, De’Niecechsi Layton, Walterine Robinson, William Thompson, Clay Williams, and Julia Young. I owe a special debt of gratitude to two members of the Department of Archives and History who read the manuscript as I wrote it, giving me valuable feedback and encouragement. Their names are Anne Lipscomb Webster and Susan Johnson. This page intentionally left blank ...