Davies - Mainstreaming Black Power

From the outset, this book project has been supported by a number of generous funding bodies, academic institutions, and professional organizations without which it simply would not have been possible. I am very grateful for scholarships from the Arts and Humanities Research Council; for research fellowships from the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library, the JFK Institute for North American Studies at the Freie Universitt in Berlin, and the Institute of the Americas of University College London (UCL); and for research grants from the School of History at the University of Leeds, the British Association for American Studies, the Royal Historical Society, the Scouloudi Foundation in association with the Institute of Historical Research, and the School of History, Art History, and Philosophy at the University of Sussex. I am also grateful to Oxford University Press and the editors at the Journal of American History, who have very kindly allowed me to use portions of an article of mine in this book.

Thanks are also due to the many librarians and archivists who assisted me during this project. In particular, Traci Drummond at Georgia State University; Wesley Chenault and Cheryl Oestreicher at the Auburn Avenue Research Library; Archie Shabazz at the Atlanta University Centers Robert W. Woodruff Library; and everyone at the M.E. Grenander Department of Special Collections and Archives at State University of New York, Albany, and at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture in Harlem were all of great assistance to me in various ways.

Researching and writing this book has been a remarkable experience. It began when I was a doctoral candidate at the University of Leeds, where I was supervised by Kate Dossett and Simon Hall. I could not have asked for two better advisors. Any merit this book has is in large part due to them. It was also a privilege to be a part of my graduate student cohort at Leeds. Doctoral work can be a lonely business, but thanks to a number of fantastic peoplePeter Whitewood, Louise Seaward, Nicholas Grant, Vincent Hiribarren, Julio Decker, Say Burgin, Henry Irving, Rachael Johnson, Cathy Coombs, Andrew Hogan, Gina Denton, Mark Walmsley, Alex Lock, Ceara Weston, and Oliver Godsmarkit was anything but.

Research trips overseas introduced me to many other people who helped in so many different ways. A number of scholarsDevin Fergus, Alan Brinkley, Mark Brilliant, Scot Brown, Herbert Gans, and Frances Fox Pivengave up their time to meet with me and discuss my research, and helped me work through my ideas. In the United States and Germany I was also fortunate to meet (or become reacquainted with) people who made sure that time not spent in the archives was unforgettable. In New York, Tom Wallace in effect made my entire first research trip fiscally possible by putting me up, rent-free, in Manhattan for six weeks, as well as showing me the sights. This is a debt I may never be able to repay in full. Joe Street was generous above and beyond the call of duty, and made afternoons at the Schomburg even more enjoyable. In Atlanta, GSU librarian Traci Drummond put me in touch with Sven Haynesthe best landlord (!) I could have hoped to meet. Through Sven I also got to meet some other great people (like Yolandeand Annika!). My stay in Los Angeles would not have been the same without Luis Domingo, David Weinstein, and the fantastic Matt and Mary Thialo. Similarly, Steve and Ji-Ea Capper (and all their crazy friends!), my housemates Oliver and Dana, my landlady Rebecca Weinstein, and Anna Armentrout all helped to make my time in San Francisco and Berkeley so enjoyable. In Berlin my fellow Leeds student Julio Decker took it upon himself to show me all the best parts of the city, and at the JFK Institute at Freie Universitt I met Damian Pargas, who has been a friend and valuable source of feedback and criticism ever since.

After finishing my studies at Leeds, I joined the faculty at the University of Sussex, where I completed revisions and finalized the monograph you are currently reading. Throughout that process, I was fortunate enough to work alongside an outstanding group of people across the History and American Studies Departments. I am very grateful for the friendship, wisdom, and support my colleagues have given me, in particular Adam Gilbert, Anne-Marie Angelo, Eric Schneider, Katharina Rietzler, Clive Webb, Claire Langhamer, Maria Roth-Lauret, Tim Hitchcock, Hester Barron, Daniel Kane, Sue Currell, Lucy Robinson, Chris Warne, Doug Haynes, Jacob Norris, Gerardo Serra, Iain McDaniel, Claudia Siebrecht, Richard Follett, Hilary Kalmbach, Gerard Gunning, and Tom Wright. I owe an especially large debt of gratitude to Robert Cook, who gave generously of his time, read the manuscript in its entirety, and offered valuable criticism and advice throughout. The final book is all the stronger for his insight. I have also benefited enormously from the support of Stephen Tuck, who has championed my cause in numerous ways over the past three years.

I am also indebted to the UCL Institute of the Americas, where I enjoyed a visiting fellowship, from October 2015 to July 2016, that allowed me to focus on manuscript revisions. I am thankful to Jonathan Bell, Nick Witham, Ellen Wu, Tom Grisaffi, Juan Grigera, and Abi Espie for making me feel so at home and for making the institute such a great place to work.