Acknowledgments

While most scholarship is not the work of a single person or a small cadre, we have been especially fortunate to have had the help of many people. Our heartfelt thanks to Mark E. Mitchell and Madeline Murphy Rabb for allowing us to reproduce images of Alice Dunbar-Nelson in their possession and rarely seen until now; to Akasha (Gloria) Hull for her encouragement and aid; to Sarah Jane Kerwin and Jillian Weber for invaluable sleuthing; to Kenneth M. Grossi for timely advice; to Roann Barris for vital information; to Andrea Jackson and Derek T. Mosley at the Robert W. Woodruff Library’s Archives Research Center at Atlanta University Center for their gracious and valuable help; to the generous and efficient staff of Special Collections at the University of Delaware—Maureen Cech, Rebecca Johnson Melvin, Timothy Murray, Curtis Small Jr., and Valerie Stenner—and to Nathan Halverson, William Penn White, and Eve Sandberg for innumerable forms of assistance and support.

—Katherine Adams, Caroline Gebhard, and Sandra A. Zagarell,
Guest Editors