Ellen Daugherty is assistant curator at the Dixon Gallery and Gardens. Earnestine Lovelle Jenkins is professor of art history at the University of Memphis. She is the author of the previous volumes in this series, Black Artists in America: From the Great Depression to Civil Rights (2022) and Black Artists in America: From Civil Rights to the Bicentennial (2024). Julie L. McGee is associate professor of art history and Africana studies at the University of Delaware. Kevin Sharp is the Linda W. and S. Herbert Rhea Director of the Dixon Gallery and Gardens.