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| Varying Form of Title: | History Makers video oral history with Delores P. Aldridge
Delores P. Aldridge
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| Other authors / contributors: | Aldridge, Delores P., interviewee.
Crowe, Larry F., interviewer.
Stearns, Scott, director of photography.
HistoryMakers (Video oral history collection), production company.
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| Sound characteristics: | digital
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| Digital file characteristics: | video file
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| Notes: | Videographer, Scott Stearns.
Larry Crowe, interviewer.
Recorded Atlanta, Georgia 2006 October 10.
Vendor-supplied metadata.
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| Summary: | African American studies professor Delores P. Aldridge was born June 8, 1941 in Tampa, Florida. She became valedictorian of Middleton High School in 1959. Aldridge earned her B.S. degree in sociology and psychology from Clark College, her master of social work degree from Atlanta University in 1966 and her Ph.D. in sociology from Purdue University in 1971. She was the first African American woman faculty member of Emory University and founding director of the first African American and African Studies degree-granting program in the South in 1971. Aldridge served twice as president of the National Council for Black Studies and was chair of the International Black Women' Congress. Aldridge published Toward Integrating Africana Women into Africana Studies in 1992 and co-edited River of Tears: The Politics of Black Women's Health in 1993. She is widely known for her 1994 work, Focusing: Black Male Female Relationships. Aldridge has received over one hundred awards.
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