BARBARA A. BURG is a research librarian, Research Services, Widener Library.RICHARD NEWMAN is the author of over 200 books, articles, and reviews in African-American studies. He is currently research officer at the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for Afro-American Research at Harvard University. Prior to this, he was managing editor of the Encyclopedia of African-American Culture and History. His most recent book is Go Down Moses: Celebrating the African American Spiritual.ELIZABETH E. SANDAGER, Archivist, was formerly affiliated with the Harvard University Archives and the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology at Harvard University.