The African Americans

by Henry Louis Gates, Jr.

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  ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

  Without the support and sponsorship of the following people, The African Americans could never have been produced: Glenn H. Hutchins, who was the first person to express support for this project even when it was a vague idea, and the Hutchins Family Foundation; Patricia Harrison, Vinnie Curren, Jennifer Lawson, John Prizer, and Joseph Tovares at the Corporation for Public Broadcasting; Paula Kerger, Michael Jones, Beth Hoppe, John Wilson, and Shawn Halford at PBS; Ingrid Saunders Jones at The Coca-Cola Company; Dr. Georgette Bennett and Dr. Leonard Polonsky in memory of Rabbi Marc H. Tanenbaum; Howard and Abby Milstein Foundation, in partnership with HooverMilstein and Emigrant Bank; Richard Gilder; Richard Plepler, CEO of HBO; Ben Carson and Gail Christopher and Alice Warner-Mehlhorn at the W. K. Kellogg Foundation; Virgis Colbert, Michele Barlow, Andrew Plepler, Pam Seagle, and Meredith Verdone at Bank of America; Jennifer Feldman and Rob Jackson at McDonald’s; Darren Walker at the Ford Foundation; and Jim Leach, Karen Mittelman, and Jeff Hardwick at the National Endowment for the Humanities. We are deeply appreciative of the support each of these individuals and organizations has given us.

  We would like to thank the following people for their assistance with the research for this book and the PBS documentary series: Nicole Bozorgmir, Rebecca Brillhart, Johni Cerny, Brittany Clemons, Sheldon Cheek, William M. Ferraro, Samantha Gowda, Hazel Gurland-Pooler, Rachel Hawatneh, Marial Iglesias Utset, Paul Kaplan, Alistair McKay, Talleah Bridges McMahon, Stephen Robinson, Paul Taylor, and Leah Williams.

  The expertise of our board of scholarly advisers was invaluable, including William Andrews, Mia Bay, Ira Berlin, David Bindman, David Blight, Vincent Brown, Lonnie Bunch, Clayborne Carson, Laurent Dubois, Brent Edwards, David Eltis, Eric Foner, Glenda Gilmore, Annette Gordon-Reed, Steven Hahn, Evelynn Hammonds, Linda M. Heywood, Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, Darlene Clark Hine, Thomas Holt, Gerald Horne, Walter Johnson, Peniel E. Joseph, Robin D. G. Kelley, Jane Landers, Jill Lepore, Thomas Mellins, Ingrid Monson, Philip Morgan, Susan O’Donovan, Eva Sheppard Wolf, John Stauffer, Thomas Sugrue, Patricia A. Sullivan, James H. Sweet, John K. Thornton, and Stephen Tuck.

  Others who shared their time and knowledge with us, for which we are deeply grateful, are Malachi “Shine de God Son” Abdul, Michael Allen, Edward Ball, Abu Bangara, Gralen Banks, Mark Bauerlein, W. Kamau Bell, Daina Ramey Berry, Michael Bertrand, Ambrose Boani, Lawrence Douglass Bobo, Donald Bogle, Jerome Bridges, Ruby Bridges, Vincent Brown, Jennifer M. Bryant, A’Lelia Bundles, Rochelle Bush, Sue Cane, Kathleen Cleaver, Anthony Cohen, Tyrone Davis, Steven Deyle, Angela Dillard, Roland Doucette, Martin Duberman, Douglas Egerton, Phoebe Ferguson, David C. Forbes, Donna Ford, Dennis Frye, Paula Giddings, Thavolia Glymph, Adam Goodheart, Ben Goold, Aram Goudsouzian, Derek Hankerson, Kenneth Hodges, Vanessa Holden, Charlayne Hunter-Gault, Darryl Johnson, Kennedy Johnson, Hari Jones, Damon Keith, Sean Kelley, Kate Clifford Larson, John Lewis, Paul Lovejoy, Lansana “Barmmy Boy” Mansaray, Mimi Miller, Willie Minor, Philip Misevich, Marcyliena Morgan, Diane Nash, Cassandra Newby-Alexander, Richard Newman, Trevor O’Brien, Joseph Opala, Christopher Parker, Gene Peters, Eulah Peterson, David Pilgrim, Clementa Pinckney, Keith Plessy, Thomalind Martin Polite & Antawn Polite, Alvin Poussaint, Colin Powell, Bernard Powers, Cassandra Pybus, Dan Rather, Noah Reeves, Jane Root, Emrys “Fisher” Savage, Kurt Schmoke, Rebecca J. Scott, Kissinor Sengu, Isatu Smith, Ada Summers, Paul Sylvester, Nikki Taylor, Ahmir “Questlove” Thompson, Michael Twitty, Mark Kelly Tyler, Darrell White, Kaye Wise Whitehead, Heather Andrea Williams, and William Julius Wilson; Joanna Mountain, Anne Wojcicki, and Ashley Gould of 23 and Me; Bennett Greenspan of FamilyTreeDNA; and Dr. Rick Kittles of AfricanAncestry.

  We’d especially like to thank Julie Wolf for her brilliantly expert copyediting of the various drafts of this manuscript, and Abby Wolf for her superb command of every aspect of the intellectual life of the Du Bois Institute. Marial Iglesias Utset graciously and generously read and fact-checked the final manuscript, and our debt to her is enormous. Amy Gosdanian coolly and calmly coordinated every aspect of the demanding shooting and writing schedule of the Institute’s director. We were helped tremendously by Steven Niven and Tom Wolejko, who always stepped in when needed. We’d like to thank the agents who represented this project, Bennett Ashley, Paul Lucas, and Tina Bennett.

  Finally, Henry Louis Gates, Jr., would like to thank his co-executive producers, Dyllan McGee and Peter Kunhardt, with whom he developed this project; Rachel Dretzin, series senior producer; Asako Gladjo, senior story producer; Phil Bertelsen, Sabin Streeter, and Jamila Wignot, producers; and Graham Smith, director of photography. Also invaluable to this project were Julie Anderson, Jane Buckwalter, Caroline Croen, Harry Forbes, Dan Greenberg, Lisa Mantone, David Raphael, Stephen Segaller, Harvey Seslowsky, Neal Shapiro, and Kellie Specter at Channel 13 in New York.

  ABOUT THE AUTHORS


  HENRY LOUIS GATES, JR., is the Alphonse Fletcher University Professor and director of the Hutchins Center for African and African American Research at Harvard University. He is the author of 16 books, including Life Upon These Shores: Looking at African American History, 1513–2008, and Tradition and the Black Atlantic, and has made 12 documentaries, including Finding Your Roots, Black in Latin America, and Looking for Lincoln. He is also the editor-in-chief of The Root, a daily online magazine. He is the recipient of 51 honorary degrees and numerous awards. In 1981, he was a member of the first class awarded “genius grants” by the MacArthur Foundation, and in 1998, he became the first African American scholar to be awarded the National Humanities Medal. He was named to Time’s “25 Most Influential Americans” list in 1997, to Ebony’s “Power 150” list in 2009, and to Ebony’s “Power 100” list in 2010 and 2012. The Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Reader, a collection of Professor Gates’s essays, was published in 2012.

  DONALD YACOVONE, the manager of research and program development at the Hutchins Center’s W. E. B. Du Bois Institute at Harvard University, earned his Ph.D. from the Claremont Graduate School and has taught at Pitzer College, the University of Arizona, and Millersville University of Pennsylvania. He was an editor at the Black Abolitionist Papers project before becoming the senior associate editor at the Massachusetts Historical Society, where he founded and edited The Massachusetts Historical Review and organized many public history programs in the Boston area. An expert in Victorian manhood, the antislavery movement, and the 54th Massachusetts Regiment, he has published six books, including Samuel Joseph May and the Dilemmas of the Liberal Persuasion; A Voice of Thunder: The Civil War Letters of George E. Stephens; and most recently, Lincoln on Race and Slavery, with Henry Louis Gates, Jr.

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