Before the Mayflower A History of the Negro in America 1619-1964

The lines from “Heritage” are reprinted from Countee Cullen's Color, copyright 1925 by Harper & Row, by permission of the publishers, Harper & Row; the lines from “Fifty Years” are reprinted from James Weldon Johnson’s Saint Peter Re- lates An Incident, copyright 1917, 1935 by James Weldon Johnson, by permission of The Viking Press, Inc.; the lines from “If We Must Die” are reprinted from Claude McKay‘s Harlem Shadows, copyright 1922 by Harcourt, Brace and Com- pany, by permission of Twayne Publishers, Incorporated. Appreciation is also due the following persons, institutions and corporations for permission to reproduce photographs: Metropolitan Museum of Art, page 9; Chicago Historical Society, pages 51, 61; Schoenfeld Collection, Three Lions, Inc., pages 76-7, 88, 102, 120, 135, 151, 190-1, 214-15; Carl Van Vechten, photograph of Bessie Smith, page 230; Magnum Photos, Inc., page 231; Wide World Photos, Inc., page 309; United Press International, pages 191, 283, 308, 320.