Credits

The Swing Along:  The Music of Early African American Composers exhibit was curated, designed, and written in spring 2019 by LeEtta Schmidt, MLS, Copyright and Intellectual Property Librarian, USF Tampa Library Digital Scholarship Services.

The exhibit banner image was adapted from the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Photographs and Prints Division, The New York Public Library photo of The Frogs, an organization for African American theater professionals: (standing, left to right) Bob Cole, Lester A. Walton, Sam Corker, Bert Williams, James Reese Europe and Alex Rogers; (seated, left to right) Tom Brown, J. Rosamond Johnson, George W. Walker, Jesse A. Shipp and R.C. McPherson (Cecil Mack), 1908. Retrieved from http://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/0abebc80-e021-0130-3925-58d385a7b928