The HistoryMakers video oral history with Lerone Bennett.
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Imprint: | Chicago, Illinois : The HistoryMakers, [2016] |
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Description: | 1 online resource (6 video files (3 hr., 2 min., 21 sec.)) : sound, color. |
Language: | English |
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Format: | E-Resource Video Streaming Video |
URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11312488 |
Varying Form of Title: | History Makers video oral history with Lerone Bennett Lerone Bennett |
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Other authors / contributors: | Bennett, Lerone, Jr., 1928-2018, interviewee. Richardson, Julieanna L., interviewer. Hickey, Matthew, director of photography. HistoryMakers (Video oral history collection), production company. |
Sound characteristics: | digital |
Digital file characteristics: | video file |
Notes: | Videographer, Matthew Hickey. Julieanna L. Richardson, interviewer. Recorded Chicago, Illinois 2002 August 29. Vendor-supplied metadata. |
Summary: | Magazine editor and social historian Lerone Bennett was born on October 17, 1928 in Clarksdale, Mississippi. He attended Morehouse College, earning a B.A. in 1949. In 1954, Bennett became an associate editor at Ebony, and was promoted to senior editor in 1958. From that time, his comprehensive articles were a hallmark of the magazine. A series of articles originally published in Ebony resulted in Bennett's first book, Before the Mayflower: A History of Black America, 1619-1962. The book, with its comprehensive examination of the history of African Americans in the United States, earned Bennett the reputation of a first-rate popular historian, writing eight subsequent books. Bennett continued to document the history of black experience in the United States in works such as Forced Into Glory: Abraham Lincoln's White Dream and The Shaping of Black America. Bennett received numerous awards, and his articles, short stories and poems were translated into five languages. |
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