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Acknowledgments Several institutions and individuals have contributed to this work,and I wish to express my sincere appreciation. They include Dan Moore and his staff at the APEX Museum of Atlanta; the Central Library of the Atlanta-Fulton Public Library System; the Auburn Avenue Library on African American Culture of the Atlanta-Fulton Public Library System; librarians and archivists at the Atlanta History Center; the Robert W. Woodruff Library of Emory University; the Georgia State Archives; the Georgia State University; the Library of Congress; the Martin Luther King Jr. Center for Non-Violent Social Change; and the Robert W. Woodruff Library of the Atlanta University Center. I would also like to thank my colleagues and former colleagues at Morehouse College—Marcellus C. Barksdale, Abraham L. Davis, Kwesi Densu, Cynthia Griggs Fleming,Vincent D. Fort, Jacqueline Rouse, E. Delores Stephens,and BarbaraTagger—along with my student research assistants Darrell Bennett, Courtney Gober, Fanon Howell, and Augustus Wood III; and Ellen Ponder, Belinda Brown, and Bettye Spicer, who meticulously and patiently deciphered my scribblings and typed many drafts of the manuscript. My series editors, Stanley Harrold and Randall Miller, read several drafts of the manuscript and made useful suggestions that have made this a better work. Finally, I thank Eli Bortz and the staff at the University Press of Florida, who enthusiastically and persistently pushed the manuscript to a successful completion. ...

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