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| Varying Form of Title: | History Makers video oral history with Jeanne Moutoussamy-Ashe
Jeanne Moutoussamy-Ashe
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| Other authors / contributors: | Moutoussamy-Ashe, Jeanne, 1951- interviewee.
Crowe, Larry F., interviewer.
Burghelea, Neculai, 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, Neculai Burghelea.
Larry Crowe, interviewer.
Recorded Chicago, Illinois 2007 January 15.
Recorded New York, New York 2007 April 15.
Vendor-supplied metadata.
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| Summary: | Photographer and civic activist Jeanne Moutoussamy-Ashe was born on July 9, 1951 in Chicago, Illinois. She graduated from Longwood Academy in 1969. Moutoussamy-Ashe attended the College of New Rochelle in New York and graduated with her B.F.A. degree from Cooper Union in 1975. In 1977, Moutousamy-Ashe married tennis legend, Arthur Ashe. She published her photo documentary, Daufuskie Island in 1981. In 1988, Arthur Ashe contracted the HIV virus from a contaminated blood transfusion. Moutoussamy-Ashe's 1993 photography book, Daddy and Me illustrates the love between Ashe and his young daughter, Camera. In 1993, Moutoussamy-Ashe published Viewfinders: Black Women Photographers covering the years 1839 to 1985. Moutoussamy-Ashe was director of Arthur Ashe Endowment for the Defeat of AIDS and chairperson of Arthur Ashe Foundation. Her book of photographs, The African Flower: The Singing of Angels was published in 2001. That same year, she hosted the documentary, Crucible of the Millennium broadcast nationwide by PBS.
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