The HistoryMakers video oral history with Leslie King-Hammond.

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Imprint:Chicago, Illinois : The HistoryMakers, [2016]
Description:1 online resource (9 video files (4 hr., 23 min., 54 sec.)) : sound, color.
Language:English
Subject:King-Hammond, Leslie, -- 1944- -- Interviews.
King-Hammond, Leslie, -- 1944-
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/11318257
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Varying Form of Title:History Makers video oral history with Leslie King-Hammond
Leslie King-Hammond
Other authors / contributors:King-Hammond, Leslie, 1944- interviewee.
Crowe, Larry F., 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.
Larry Crowe, interviewer.
Recorded Chicago, Illinois 2007 April 26.
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Summary:Academic administrator and professor Leslie King-Hammond was born on August 4, 1944. King-Hammond earned her B.F.A. degree from Queens College in 1969 and her M.A. degree and Ph.D. degrees from John Hopkins University. From 1969 to 1971, King-Hammond chaired the Art Department for the Performing Arts Workshops of Queens, New York. In 1973, King-Hammond began lecturing at the Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA). By 1976, she was promoted to dean of graduate studies where she remained until retiring to become graduate dean emerita and the founding director of the Center for Race and Culture at MICA in 2008. Between 1977 and 1981, King-Hammond served as doctoral supervisor for Howard University's Department of African Studies. She was commissioner for the Civic Design Commission in Baltimore, Maryland from 1983 to 1987. From 1990 to 1996, she served as art consultant for the Afro-American Historical & Cultural Museum.