Black Legislators in Louisiana during Reconstruction

Acknowledgments

Acknowledgments I should like to express my appreciation to the staffs of the following archives and libraries: the National Archives, Library of Congress, Moorland-Spingarn Research Center at Howard University, New Orleans Public Library, Louisiana State Archives and Records, Howard-Tilton Library at Tulane University , Louisiana State University Department of Archives and Manuscripts, Southern University Library, and Amistad Research Center at Dillard University. Special thanks are due Evangeline Lynchand herstaffatthe LouisianaRoom, Louisiana State University Library, for making materials available. I appreciate the aid, critical comments, suggestions, and encouragement of many other persons, including Thomas Holt, Howard University; Marcus B. Christian and Joseph Logsdon, University ofNew Orleans; John W. Blassingame, Yale University ; Shirley M. Jackson, Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, Ohio; E. Russ Williams, Jr., Northeast Louisiana University; MarkT. Carleton, LouisianaState University; James Lewis, Master Mason, Baton Rouge;Joseph A. Cardozo, Southern University; and Simuel M. Austin photographer, Southern University. The staff at the Louisiana State University Press, especially my editor, Martha L. Hall, have been ofinvaluable aid in the final preparation of the manuscript. I am deeply grateful to my majorprofessor, T. Harry Williams, for the patient and helpful guidance he gave as I prepared the xvii xviii Acknowledgments study as a disseliation. I received financial aidfrom the Southern Fellowship Fund of Atlanta, Georgia, over a three-year period during my graduate career, a support I sincerely appreciate. Above all, I thank the members ofmy family, especially my wife, Deloris, whosehelpingoodtimesandbadwentalongwaytoward helping complete this work. ...