The HistoryMakers video oral history with Dinizulu Gene Tinnie.

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Imprint:Chicago, Illinois : The HistoryMakers, [2016]
Description:1 online resource (14 video files (7 hr., 10 min., 22 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/11337341
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Varying Form of Title:History Makers video oral history with Dinizulu Gene Tinnie
Dinizulu Gene Tinnie
Other authors / contributors:Tinnie, Dinizulu Gene, 1942- 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 Miami, Florida 2017 January 23.
Recorded Miami, Florida 2017 March 6.
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Summary:Artist and professor Dinizulu Gene Tinnie was born Gene Sinclair Tinnie on February 25, 1942, in South Bronx, New York. He attended Suffolk County Community College, where he earned his A.A. degree, with an emphasis on science in 1962. He earned his B.A. degree in French in 1965 from the State University of New York-Stony Brook. Tinnie earned a Fulbright scholarship in 1966, and studied in France, before earning his M.A. degree in French literature and linguistics from Queens College, City University of New York in 1970. Tinnie designed the inaugural museum space of the Boston African American Museum in 1974, and also designed exhibitions and installations at the Old Dillard Museum in Fort Lauderdale. He served as adjunct and assistant professor at both Miami-Dade Community College and Florida Memorial College, and his works were featured at numerous locations around Miami and Boston.