The HistoryMakers video oral history with Rebecca "Becky" Love.

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Imprint:Chicago, Illinois : The HistoryMakers, [2016]
Description:1 online resource (4 video files (1 hr., 39 min., 39 sec.)) : sound, color.
Language:English
Subject:Love, Rebecca, -- 1916-2013 -- Interviews.
African Americans -- Interviews.
African Americans.
Internet videos.
Interviews.
Nonfiction films.
Oral histories.
Oral histories.
Internet videos.
Nonfiction films.
Format: E-Resource Video Streaming Video
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11317896
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Varying Form of Title:History Makers video oral history with Rebecca "Becky" Love
Rebecca "Becky" Love
Other authors / contributors:Love, Rebecca, 1916-2013, interviewee.
Crowe, Larry F., interviewer.
Stearns, Scott, director of photography.
HistoryMakers (Video oral history collection), production company.
Sound characteristics:digital
Digital file characteristics:video file
Notes:Videographer, Scott Stearns.
Larry Crowe, interviewer.
Recorded Chicago, Illinois 2003 March 28.
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Summary:Educator and yoga instructor Rebecca "Becky" Love was born on May 2, 1916 in Buffalo, New York. She earned a B.S. degree in education in 1951 and an M.A. degree in 1966 from Northwestern University. Love taught third-grade students at Doolittle West School on Chicago's South side for thirty-eight years. She studied yoga with Sivananda Yoga Vendanta group and began teaching it in the early 1960s. Love also conducted master-level training at Temple of Kriya Yoga. She earned the title master teacher of Hatha yoga in 1972 and trained hundreds of yoga teachers at the Temple. Over the years, Love became one of Chicago's most beloved yoga instructors. Love regularly lectured and conducted workshops on health and nutrition in addition to teaching eleven yoga classes, six days a week. Love planned to retire from teaching when she turns 100. Love passed away on October 18, 2013 at age 97.