Produced, Directed & Edited by
Joel Katz

Coordinating Producer
Prudence Hill

Original Musical Score
Don Byron

Score Produced by
Hans Wendl

Music Supervisor
Rena Kosersky

Directors of Photography
John Miglietta
Thomas Torres

Narrated by
Dorothy Thigpen

Additional Camera
Steve McCarthy
Joel Katz
John Osborne
Fred Barney Taylor

Sound
Thomas Torres
John Coppola
John Osborne
José Santamaria
Steven Dressler

Musicians
Don Byron, clarinets
George Colligan, piano
Lonnie Plaxico, bass
Ben Wittman, drums & percussion
Ralph Alessi, trumpet
Robert DeBellis, woodwinds
Tim Albright, trombone

Editorial Consultation
Harry Kafka
Tal McThenia
David Petersen
Laura Tangusso

Assistant Editors
Claire McKay
Paulo Padilha

Film & Photo Research
Bonnie Rowan
Prudence Hill
Tal McThenia

Additional Research
Patrice Bradshaw
Onomé Ekeh
Josh Feinberg
Shelia Maniar
Shana Swanson
Dwight Walker
Kim Hartley

Legal Consultation
Innes Gumnitsky
Cowan, Debeats, Abrahams & Sheppard LLP

Fiscal Sponsorship
Center for Independent Documentary
New York Foundation for the Arts

Transcriptions
Nancy Lucas-Lipner

Still Photography
Laura Tangusso
Thomas Torres

Archival Sources
John E. Allen, Inc.
Archive Films
International Television News
Isaach de Bankolé, Tougaloo Films
Boston University Special Collections
Mark Cantor
Library of Congress
Granada Television
National Archives
Schomburg Center, New York City Public Library
Tamiment Collection, New York University
Wide World Photos
Reference Center for Marxist Studies, Inc.
Beaumont Enterprise
Municipal Archives, Department of Records and Information Services, City of New York
Georgetown University Library Special Collections & Archives
Rommel Pecson
AP Photos

Visual Artworks (used with permission)
Jules Arthur
Philip Evergood, courtesy of Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, (Gift of Joseph H. Hirshhorn, 1966, photographed By Lee Stalsworth)
Aaron Goodelman
Boris Gorelick
Philip Guston, courtesy of Whitney Museum of American Art, NY
Samuel Johnson
William Johnson
Jacob Lawrence
Louis Losowick
Isamu Noguchi
Harry Sternberg
Lloyd Stevens
Herman Warsager
Hale Woodruff

Residency Support
Blue Mountain Center

Special thanks to
Kelly Anderson
Amanda Berger & Maurice Emsellem
Leah Chaback
Tami Gold
Judith Helfand
Danny Kapilian
Yvette Mattern
David Shulman
Jeffrey Skoller
Edin Velez
Carole Zawatsky

Additional Thanks
James Allan
Amber Black
Dee Dee Bridgewater
Charley Brooks
Daphne Brooks
Joanne Bruno
Susan DeCarava, New York Historical Society
Melanie DeMore
Kirkland Dixon
Onomé Ekeh
Tom Gannon
Aviva Glass
Marvin Glass
Jacqueline Goldsby
Marina Gonzalez
Denise Greene
Laura Grunwerg
Lauren Iossa, ASCAP
Hard Boiled Egg Dealers of New York, Inc.
Ben Jones
Dr. Carlos Hernandez
Susan, Luba, & Kolya Katz
Andy Laster
Myra Luftman
David Margolick
Moore's Ford Memorial Committee
Dan Morgenstern, Institute for Jazz Studies
Sean Noel, Boston University Library, Special Collections
Steve Fishler & Joel Sucher, Pacific Street Films
Father Peter O'Brian
Rosenberg Fund for Children
Jane Steuerwald
Brian Timmons
Third World Newsreel
Jim Wallace
The students of the Media Arts Department
Susi Walsh
Norman Weschler, former Principal, DeWitt Clinton H.S.
Roy Wilson
Richard Wormser

© 2002 Oniera Films LLC

Produced in association with the Independent Television Service (ITVS),
with funding provided by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.