The HistoryMakers video oral history with Jemadari Kamara.

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Imprint:Chicago, Illinois : The HistoryMakers, [2016]
Description:1 online resource (10 video files (5 hr., 6 min., 35 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/11318280
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Varying Form of Title:History Makers video oral history with Jemadari Kamara
Jemadari Kamara
Other authors / contributors:Kamara, Jemadari, 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 Boston, Massachusetts 2007 September 11.
Recorded Boston, Massachusetts 2012 October 10.
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Summary:Professor and education administrator Jemadari Kamara was born on November 25, 1948 in Detroit, Michigan. He received his B.A. degree from Tufts University in 1972 and his Ph.D. degree in technological and environmental planning at University of Michigan in 1983. Kamara taught at Brandeis University and University of Michigan in the 1970s and 1980s. In 1988, he was hired as dean of the College of Public and Community Service at University of Massachusetts, Boston. He later served as chairman of the university's Africana Studies Department and became founding director of the Center for African, Caribbean and Community Development. Kamara was twice a Fulbright Scholar in Africa. He was international coordinator for the Youth, Education and Sports (YES) with Africa Program. His publications include editing the 1987 publication, Socially Responsible Investment and Economic Development and co-editing and contributing to the 2004 publication, State of the Race - Creating Our 21st Century.