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Brooks, Gwendolyn. “The Last Quatrain of the Ballad of Emmett Till.” Blacks (Chicago: Third World, 1992).

PHOTOGRAPHS AND ILLUSTRATIONS APPEARING IN Literary Masters, Vol. 4: Toni Morrison, WERE REPRODUCED FROM THE FOLLOWING SOURCES:

Beah Richards. Photo by Ken Regan. Winfrey. Journey to Beloved.New York: Hyperion, 1998.

Camille Billops, James Van Der Zee, and Owen Dodson. Photo by Jeanie Black.

Civil-rights demonstrators in Montgomery, Alabama. Bruccoli Clark Layman Archive.

Cover of Newsweek. Bruccoli Clark Layman Archive.

Lithograph of Thomas Satterwhite Noble’s The Modern Medea (1867). Weisenburger, Steven. Modern Medea: A Family Story of Slavery and Child-Murder from the Old South. New York: Hill & Wang, 1998.

Emmett Till. UPI/Bettmann.

Morrison. © Thomas Victor.

Morrison. Photo by Brian Lanker.

Morrison. © The Nobel Foundation.

Morrison and Edward Jenkins. Moorland-Springarn Research Center at Howard University.

Morrison and the Howard Players. Moorland-Springarn Research Center at Howard University.

Morrison’s Nobel citation. © 2002 The Nobel Foundation.

Newspaper clipping from a 29 January 1856 Cincinnati Enquirer. Pendleton County, Kentucky. USGenWeb Archives.

Owen Dodson. Photo by Kurt Ammann.

Program for a 1953 Howard Players production. Hatch-Billops Collection.

Thandie Newton, Morrison, Oprah Winfrey, and Kimberly Elise. Photo by Ken Regan. Winfrey, Oprah. Journey to Beloved. New York: Hyperion, 1998.