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THE SLEEPER WAKES -- HARLEM RENAISSANCE STORIES BY WOMEN |
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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS There are so many people who have made this book possible for me, I hope that in my thanks I am able to remember them all. First of all, I would like to give my never-ending thanks to the one person who has inspired me from the beginning, Lisa Maria Hogeland. She introduced me to the Harlem Renaissance with Jessie Redmon Fauset's novel Plum Bun, which ignited the fire inside me to further research this period. I would also like to thank Elizabeth McCord for her constant support both academically and emotionally, during this project and in every other part of my life. During my research at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture I was helped by so many dedicated people. I would like to extend my special thanks to the following people: Helen L. Roberts, Genette McLaurin, Ernest Blackwell, Jim Huffman, Lisa Henry, and Terrance Johnson. I would also like to express my appreciation to Julie Hotton for continuing to spread the Harlem Renaissance art work throughout the artistic community by displaying her wonderful photographs by Carl Van Vechten in her home gallery. I feel a special debt to Gloria Roberts at the Planned Parenthood Federation of America for helping me locate Angelina Weld Grimke's story. I would like to thank Janet Sims-Wood for helping me with my research at Howard University's Moorland-Spingarn Research Center and Dorothy Porter Wesley for sharing her stories with me about women during the Harlem Renaissance in Washington, D.C. I would like to express my gratitude to Nancy Glassman, Maria Aragon, and Paul Tremer for allowing me to stay with them while I researched the material for this book. I would like to thank the University of Cincinnati Taft Grant Committee for financially assisting me through my research. Also, thanks to Elaine Hughes at the University of Cincinnati Langsam Library for her research help. I would also like to express my gratitude to Amy Elder for her academic support and guidance through this project. Also thanks to Elisabeth Patch for her editorial advice. This project would never have been possible if it had not been for the faith Leslie Mitchner and Nellie McKay had in me. Additionally, I would like to thank Akasha (Gloria) Hull for sharing information with me on Georgia Douglas Johnson and Alice Dunbar-Nelson. Her support of this project helped to inspire me. Also, I extend my deep gratitude to Dorothy West for telling me anecdotes about her life and for sharing with me what it was like to be a part of the Harlem Renaissance. It means so much to me to know that they believed in me. Never the least, I would like to thank my father, David, my sister Leah, my husband, Tom, and the rest of my family and friends who have given me support throughout this entire project. Most of all I would like to express my never-ending gratitude to my mother, Jane, who inspired me through her own achievements in journalism and who helped me to make this project a reality. I only wish she had lived long enough to see it through to its completion.
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