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| Varying Form of Title: | History Makers video oral history with Paul Jones
Paul Jones
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| Other authors / contributors: | Jones, Paul R. (Paul Raymond), 1928-2010, interviewee.
Merriday, Jodi, interviewer.
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.
Jodi Merriday, interviewer.
Larry Crowe, interviewer.
Recorded Atlanta, Georgia 2003 August 16.
Recorded Atlanta, Georgia 2005 June 24.
Recorded Atlanta, Georgia 2005 August 23.
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| Summary: | Civic leader and art collector Paul R. Jones was born on June 1, 1928 in Bessemer, Alabama. Jones first attended school in the South, but was sent to New York to continue his education. Jones earned both his B.A. and M.A. degrees from Howard University. While participating in the Civil Rights Movement, he befriended several Washington, D.C. politicians. By 1965, he was working for the U.S. Departments of Justice and Commerce. He spent a year in Bangkok, Thailand as a deputy director of the Peace Corps. After a Congressional run in the early 1980s, Jones focused on his real estate venture, Paul Jones Enterprises and his vast collection of African American art. In 2001, Jones donated hundreds of pieces from his collection to the University of Delaware. In 2008, he donated the remaining 1,700 pieces to the University of Alabama. Jones passed away on January 26, 2010 at 81.
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