This Web site was built by Columbia University Digital Knowledge Ventures in collaboration with Harlem Hospital Center, and with support and guidance from Columbia University's Institute of Research in African-American Studies, and Office of Government and Community Affairs.

DKV

Executive Editor: Vivian Ducat
Project and Archival Manager: Kathryn Pope
Writer: Kathryn Pope
Director of Production: Jason Fox
Director of Video Production: Vincent Aliberto
Mural Photography and Video: Vincent Aliberto, Ed Holt
Video Production: Carlos Zambrano
Assistant Editors: Merran Swartwood, Snigdha Koirala
Copyeditor: Brock Pennington
Design: Richard Cunningham
Information Architecture: Alexis Lloyd
Development: Mark Reilly, Daniel Cheng

Institute for Research in African-American Studies

Farah Griffin, Director and Professor of English and Comparative Literature

Office of Government and Community Affairs

Maxine Griffith, Executive Vice President
Marcia Sells, Assistant Vice President for Program Development and Initiatives

Harlem Hospital Center

John M. Palmer, Ph.D., Executive Director
Sylvia L. White, Chief of Staff
Deborah Thornhill, Associate Executive Director
Trevor Henry, Project Director

Interviewees

Howard Dodson, Director, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, The New York Public Library

Jacqueline Francis, William Wilhartz Assistant Professor, History of Art and Center for AfroAmerican & African Studies University of Michigan

Gillian Britta Randell, New York Fine Art Conservation, Inc.

Georgette Seabrooke Powell, Artist and WPA Muralist

Academic Advisors

Farah Griffin
Jacqueline Francis
Margaret Vendryes, Associate Professor of Art History, York College, The City University of New York

Special Thanks

James Swanton, Chief Librarian, Harlem Hospital Center
David Thaxton, Thaxton-Green Studios, Inc.

Archival Film and Still Images

Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution
Center for Migration Studies
Columbia University
Estate of Morgan and Marvin Smith
Harlem Hospital
National Archives
New Deal Network
Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, New York Public Library, Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundations