[12][13] In 1936, a group of African American artists, including Charles Alston, Georgette Seabrook, Vertis Hayes, Sara Murrell, Selma Day, and Lightfoot submitted mural designs for Harlem Hospital in New York City.

The exhibition counted among its sponsors such prominent white patrons as Mayor Fiorello La Guardia, Archibald MacLeish, A. Philip Randolph, and Eleanor Roosevelt.

[17] Elba Lightfoot appears in a group photograph of the artists of the WPA Art Center at 306 W. 141st St., New York.

[18] A 1988 oral history interview of Elba Lightfoot is in the Camille Billops and James V. Hatch Archives at Emory University.

[20] This article incorporates public domain material from websites or documents of the Works Progress Administration.