Producers

Rick Smith and Ruth Laney

Writer

Ruth Laney

Editor

Rick Smith

Narrator

Ed Shannon

Director of Photography

Charles Bush

Actors

Adele Gautier

Donald Lewis

Ahmos Zu-Bolton

Additional Photography

J. Carlos Eaglin II

Rick Smith

Chris Kent

Chris Miranda

Keith Normand

Jodie Fontenot

Rex Fortenberry

Location Sound

Chris Miranda

Rick Smith

J. Carlos Eaglin II

Title Graphics

Bryce Whiteside

Electronic Graphics

Jodie Fontenot

Online Editor

Reggie Wade

Post-Production Audio

Ben Williams

Project Advisors

Anthony Barthelemy, Ph.D., University of Miami

John Callahan, Ph.D., Lewis and Clark College

Thadious M. Davis, Ph.D., Brown University

Marcia Gaudet, Ph.D., University of Southwestern Louisiana

Patricia Rickels, Ph.D., University of Southwestern Louisiana

Lewis Simpson, Ph.D., Louisiana State University

Richard Yarborough, Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles

Research Assistant

Anne O. Craig

Acknowledgements

Dorothy Marsden

Tom Lucy

Alba Dominguez

Holiday Inn Golden Gateway

Lana Touchstone

First Camera, San Francisco

Magnetic Image, San Rafael, CA

Larry Michaud

Faye Phillips

Judy Smith

Virginia Smith

Neal Blanchard

Brad Pope

Ellen Hunley Hatcher

Doris Meriwether

Stan Richey

Dr. James Cookston

East Baton Rouge Parish Prison

Warden Joe Sabella

Lt. RD. Deffez

Helene Whitson

The Compact Disc Store, Baton Rouge

Rev. Henry Rowan

Archival Photo Sources

Kennedy Library, Vallejo, CA

Vallejo Naval and Historical Museum

Louisiana State Library

East Baton Rouge Parish Library

Historic New Orleans Collection

Hill Memorial Library - Louisiana and Lower Mississippi Valley Collection

Louisiana Department of Agriculture

Pointe Coupee Parish Library

Lois and Chet Young

Debra Colar Cromwell

Glenn Morgan

Archives and Special Collections, San Francisco State University

Stanford University Archives

Brian Costello

Madeleine Bouanchand Caillet

Malvina Becnel Pickett

Norbert Colar, Jr.

Ruby McVay Simmons

Dorothy Ruffin Lathers

David Biben

Melodie Major Ortis

Joe Williams

Ernest J. Gaines

Archival Film Sources

Budget Films

Davidson Films, Inc.

Louisiana Department of Commerce and Industry

National Archives

David Biben

Funding provided by the Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities, the California Endowment for the Humanities, the Southern Educational Communications Association, the Louisiana Division of the Arts, and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting

Special Thanks to Ben

LPB Executive Producer

Rick Smith

LPB Executive Director

Beth Courtney

© 1993 Louisiana Educational Television Authority