Curator & Project Manager
Jami Murphy, Project Archivist, Auburn Avenue Research Library on African American Culture and History

Exhibit Design
Jami Murphy, Exhibit Panels and Omeka Digital Exhibit

Graphic Design & Social Media
Ruben Lebron-Villegas, Digital Media Associate
Briana Botsford, Public Affairs Officer, Fulton County Library System

Collections
Ellie Lee Weems Photographic Negatives Collection
Annie L. McPheeters Papers
Utopian Literary Club Records
Rare Periodicals and Newspaper Collection

Institutional Support
Auburn Avenue Research Library on African American Culture and History
Fulton County Library System
Georgia Public Library Service

Funding
Supported in part by the Mellon Foundation and Fulton County

Special Thanks
To the volunteers, staff, and community partners whose contributions and insights helped bring this exhibit to life. Special appreciation goes to Victor Simmons, Branch Manager, Auburn Avenue Research Library, for granting the freedom and encouragement to bring this vision to fruition; to Derek Mosely, Archives Division Manager, for providing the opportunity to develop this exhibit and for earmarking Mellon funds in its support; and to Afia Vassall, Project Assistant, for her work assisting with the identification of thousands of individuals in the Weems negatives.

A portion of the exhibit text was drafted and/or refined with the assistance of ChatGPT (OpenAI), an AI-based language model. All exhibit text and interpretive framing reflect the curator's research, knowledge, and authorship.