The Authors

Primary responsibility for the selection of documentary material and the accompanying text for Volume I and for Part I of Volume II was undertaken by Dr. Sheridan Johns III, of Duke University. He is particularly well-equipped to handle the material in this period, having written his doctoral dissertation on early left-wing movements in South Africa, and published lengthy articles on the Industrial and Commercial Workers' Union.

Professor Thomas Karis, of City College, City University of New York, undertook comparable responsibility for the remainder of Volume II and for Volume III, covering most of 1935-1952 and 1953-1964. He is author of the section on South Africa in Five African States: Responses to Diversity, Gwendolen M. Carter, ed., (Cornell University Press, 1963), and The Treason Trial in South Africa: A Guide to the Microfilm Record of the Trial (Hoover Institution, 1965). He is also coauthor with Gwendolen M. Carter and Newell M. Stultz of South Africa's Transkei: The Politics of Domestic Colonialism (Northwestern University Press, 1967).

Professor Gwendolen M. Carter of Northwestern University has aided throughout as collaborator, critic, and editor. She brings to bear her research and writings on South Africa, which include most relevantly The Politics of Inequality: South Africa since 1948 (Praeger, 1958, rev. 1959), "African Nationalist Movements" in Southern Africa in Transition, edited by John A. Davis and James K. Baker (Praeger, 1966), pp. 3-19, African Concepts of Nationalism in South Africa (Melville J. Herskovits Memorial Lecture, University of Edinburgh, March, 1965), and her share in preparing South Africa's Transkei.

Gail M. Gerhart has assisted in the preparation of Volume III and is the author of the introductory essays on the Africanist movement and the Pan Africanist Congress in that volume. She is a graduate of Radcliffe College. Her doctoral dissertation for Columbia University is an analysis of the development of the Pan Africanist Congress and the problem of change in South Africa. Now living in Nairobi, she has made a number of research trips to South Africa since 1963.

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