series producer, Graeme Hart ; a production of McGee Media, Inkwell Films, Kunhardt Films and WETA Washington, D.C., in asociation with Nutopia Limited ; written by Henry Louis Gates, Jr. ; producer/directors, Mark Bates, Karen McGann and Virginia Quinn
Henry Louis Gates, Jr., General Editor, Alphonse Fletcher University Professor and Director of the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for African and American Research, Harvard University ; Valerie A. Smith, General Editor, Dean of the College, Woodrow Wilson, Professor of Literature, Professor of English and African American Studies, Princeton University