Credits

Artwork: Romare Bearden, Pittsburgh Memory, 1964. Collage of printed papers with graphite on cardboard. Collection of halley k harrisburg and Michael Rosenfeld, New York.

Langston Hughes, "Democracy and Me," speech delivered at the public session of the Third American Writers' Congress, Carnegie Hall, New York City, June 1939.

Phillip Simmons comment made in an address delivered at the symposium "Toward Definition: An Examination of African American Craft Art," the National Afro-American Museum and Cultural Center, Wilberforce, Ohio, November 1993. Quoted in article "Toward Definition" by Sharon Fitzgerald, American Craft, April/May 1994.

James Baldwin, "A Talk to Teachers," The Saturday Review, December 21, 1963. Comment also delivered in an address, "The Negro Child--His Self-Image," on October 16, 1963.