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Black mariners

Title
Black mariners [videorecording] / WCVB-TV, Boston ; produced by Karl Nurse.
Publication
United States : WCVB-TV, 1990-03-01.

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Additional Authors
  • Nurse, Karl
  • Turman, Glynn.
  • WCVB-TV (Television station : Boston, Mass.)
  • World Institute of Black Communications.
  • CEBA Collection.
Description
1 videocassette of 1 (U-matic) (22 min.) : sd., col.; 3/4 in.
Summary
A television program that surveys the history of black sailors beginning with West African ships sent to the Americas 200 years before Columbus and covering black involvement in the whaling industry, the development of the seafaring Cape Verdean community in New Bedford, Mass., and black participation in the U.S. Navy and Merchant Marines during the Civil War, WWI, and WWII. Historical figures such as pirate El Mulatto, explorer Matthew Henson, and Marcus Garvey are touched upon and historical commentary is provided by historians Jim Farr and Melvin Hendrix, curator Richard Kugler and Joli Gonsalves, head of the Cape Verde Center.
Donor/Sponsor
Schomburg NEH Automated Access to Special Collections Project.
Subjects
Genre/Form
  • Historical works.
  • Television.
  • Black films and programs.
Note
  • This program forms part of the Communications Excellence to Black Audiences (CEBA) Award collection, a competition sponsored by the World Institute of Black Communications, inc.
Credits (note)
  • Writer, Steve Hemingway ; editors, Reg Power, Dave Teixeira, Mary Driscoll, Glenn Fletcher, Wayne Smith.
Call Number
Sc Visual VRB-1549
OCLC
NYPG92-F189
Title
Black mariners [videorecording] / WCVB-TV, Boston ; produced by Karl Nurse.
Imprint
United States : WCVB-TV, 1990-03-01.
Country of Producing Entity
United States.
Performer
Host: Glynn Turman.
Credits
Writer, Steve Hemingway ; editors, Reg Power, Dave Teixeira, Mary Driscoll, Glenn Fletcher, Wayne Smith.
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Added Author
Nurse, Karl, production.
Turman, Glynn. Host
WCVB-TV (Television station : Boston, Mass.)
World Institute of Black Communications.
CEBA Collection.
Research Call Number
Sc Visual VRB-1549 Original of: Sc Visual VRA-823.
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