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[[image - black and white photograph of part of the exterior of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City]

[[image - black & white photograph of Allon Schoener]]
[[credit]] REGINALD McGHEE [[/credit]]

Allon Schoener, editor of Harlem On My Mind and exhibition coordinator for the Metropolitan Museum's Harlem exhibition, is Visual Arts Director of the New York State Council on the Arts. He created The Jewish Museum's widely acclaimed Lower East Side exhibition, is the author of Portal to America: The Lower East Side 1870-1925, and produced the New York State Council on the Arts' multi-media exhibition, Erie Canal 1817-1967, presented on a canal boat that toured New York state communities. Born in Cleveland, trained as an art historian at Yale University and the University of London's Courtauld Institute, he prefers to describe himself as an environmental critic – one who examines how we live and comments on it. 

[[image - black & white photograph of Thomas Hoving]]
[[credit]] FABIAN BACHRACH [[/credit]]

Thomas P.F. Hoving, Director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, generated a new sense of excitement about urban living during his term as Parks Commissioner in New York City. In his post at the Metropolitan Museum, he is bringing excitement in ideas and presentation as well as awareness of community responsibility to art museums through innovations he is introducing. 

[[image - black & white photograph of Candice Van Ellison]]
[[credit]] REGINALD McGHEE [[/credit]]

Candice Van Ellison is an undergraduate majoring in sociology at the University of Bridgeport. Born in 1950, she has lived in Harlem all her life. In 1967, her last year at Theodore Roosevelt High School in the Bronx, she wrote a term paper describing life in Harlem. It serves as the introduction to this book.

[[image - black & white photograph of Reginald McGhee]]
[[credit]] MARGOT NIEDERLAND [[/credit]]

Reginald McGhee is director of photographic research for the Metropolitan Museum's Harlem On My Mind Exhibition. He is a professional journalistic photographer whose work has appeared nationally in newspapers and periodicals.

[[image - black & white photograph of Donald Harper]]
[[credit]] REGINALD McGHEE [[/credit]]

Donald Harper is associate researcher and media director for the Harlem On My Mind Exhibition. He is an electrical engineer who has moved into the field of multimedia communication. He participated in creating March On Selma, a documentary exhibition which coordinated taped-interview portraits with photographs by Bruce Davidson.

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