a film by Kunhardt McGee Productions, Inkwell Films, and THIRTEEN Productions, LLC, in association with Ark Media ; senior producer, Rachel Dretzin ; written by Henry Louis Gates, Jr. ; directors, Phil Bertelsen, Leslie Asaka Gladsjo, Sabin Streeter, Jamilla Wignot
edited by Emita Brady Hill and Janet Butler Munch ; foreword by Fernando Ferrer ; preface by Ray Bromley ; photographs by Georgeen Comerford and Walter Rosenblum