Acknowledgments

The research conducted for this book and writing of the manuscript was supported by the National Library of Medicine of the National Institutes of Health under Award Number G13LM012463 (content is solely the responsibility of the author and does not necessarily represent the official views of the National Institutes of Health); a Senior Fellowship at the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of American History; a Fellowship at the Black Metropolis Research Consortium, University of Chicago; and a fellowship from EURIAS at the Institute for Advanced Studies, Marseille, France, cofunded by Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions, under the 7th Framework Programme.