The Muse in Bronzeville: African American Creative Expression in Chicago, 1932-1950

Acknowledgments

I acknowledgments I Because of this book’s long gestation, thanks are due to many people, no fewer than three generations of scholars, archivists, community leaders, friends, and colleagues (including some no longer with us), who offered assistance and support to both authors. Limitations of space preclude offering the detailed, individual acknowledgment due to each, but this simple list of names is accompanied by a deep sense of gratitude from the family of Robert Bone and me: Dora Apel, Andrea Barnwell, Ken and Gwyneth Bohr, Martha Briggs, Quinn and Andrea Brisben, Ronald Brown, Valerie Gerrard Browne, Alice Browning, Marilyn Campbell, Beverly Cook, Bill Costanzo, Betsy Currier, Vera Davis, James de Jongh, Carlos Delgado, Alan Devenish, Sammie Dortch, David C. Driskell, Cynthia FifeTownsell , Suzanne Flandreau, Henry Louis Gates Jr., Fern Gayden, Edmund W. Gordon, Maryemma Graham, Lawrence Graver, Adam Green, Tom Halsall, Joseph Hankin, Nathan Harpaz, Michael S. Harper, Michael Hays, Melanie Herzog, Beth Howse, Helen Hughes, Claudia Jacques, Lisa Jerry, Jeh Charles Johnson, Eileen Johnston, Chuck Jones, Beatrice Julian, Katie Keeran, Martin Kilson, James Sterling King, Daniel Klein, Donna Korey, Dale Leifeste, Irving Lippner, Robert Luckett, Frank Madden, Robert Mancell, Edward Margolis, Lawrence McClellan Jr., Rob Medina, Ethelbert Miller, Robert Miller, Leslie Mitchner, Archie Motley, Ray Nance, Heather Ostman, Louis Parascondola, Eugene Useni Perkins, Julia Perkins, Thelma and Toussaint Perkins, Kymberly Pinder, Linda Roberti, Chet Rogalski, Alexander Saxton, Nathaniel Sayles, Rebecca Schrader, Jody Schwartz, Patti Sehulster, Una Shih, Jessie Carney Smith, Frances Jones Sneed, Ruth Ann Stewart, Jon Christian Suggs, Trygve Tholfsen, John Edgar Tidwell, Karen Vanterpool , Jianping Wang, Elise Virginia Ward, Jerry W. Ward, C. Ian White, Sonja Williams, Ruth Wilner, Paul Wray, Scott Zaluda. A special note of appreciation is due to the other Courages in my life: my mother, Gloria, my former wife, Gretchen, and our children, Emilie and Stephen, for their love, support, and understanding of the struggles of a bornagain scholar. I apologize to anyone I may have omitted. I am grateful for the following forms of institutional support: a summer stipend from the National Endowment for the Humanities, a short-term fellowship in African American Studies from the Black Metropolis Research Consortium, a sabbatical granted by the Westchester Community College Board of Trustees, and research/travel support from the WCC Federation of Teachers and the WCC Center for Faculty. For images and permissions to use images and various textual materials, I thank the following institutions and individuals: Art Institute of Chicago, Brooks Permissions, Valerie Gerrard Browne, Charles White Archives, Chicago History Museum, Chicago Public Library: Vivian G. Harsh Collection of Afro-American History and Literature and CPL Special Collections Division, Barbara Cordell, Donadio & Olson, DuSable Museum of African American History, the family of Garland J. Millet, Gordon Parks Foundation, xix I Harold Ober Associates, Howard University Gallery of Art, Jeh V. Johnson, Library of Congress: Prints & Photographs Division, Michael Rosenfeld Gallery, New York Public Library: Jerome Robbins Dance Division and Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Newberry Library, Toussaint Perkins, Royal Opera House Collections, Alexander Saxton, Judith Siporin, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Melvin B. Tolson Jr., University of Chicago Special Collections Research Center, University of Georgia Press, University of Illinois in Chicago Special Collections, University of Illinois Press. Every effort has been made to contact all rights holders for images and unpublished materials. If you are the rights holder and have not been reached, please inform Rutgers University Press. Richard A. Courage Westchester Community College, SUNY xx I Acknowledgments The Muse in Bronzeville ...