Research Catalog

Title

Oral history interview with Jasper Brown Jeffries / Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture ; interview conducted by Kathleen J. Prestwidge.

Author

Jeffries, Jasper Brown, 1912-1994

Publication

New York : Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, 1987.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Prestwidge, K. J.
• Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture.

Description

2 videodiscs (95 min.) : sound, color; 4 3/4 in.

Summary

Mr. Jeffries discusses his life and his career in academia and private business as well as some of his views on nuclear weapons and Ronald Reagan. Introduction; education; African Americans in colleges and universities; family; early school; black faculty at W. Virginia State; teaching at high school; graduate school; signal corps, marriage; work on Manhattan Project and other minority scientists involved; employment as physics dept. chairman at N.C. State U.; industry position in Brooklyn; involvement in civic activities; children; how he became dept. of Chairman at Westchester Community College and difficulty integrating faculty; anecdotes about "liberal" officemate; retirement activities; views on nuclear weapons, Reagan; Atomic Scientists of Chicago; investigation by government because of Manhattan Project and friendship with left-wing individuals; parents; advice to young people; concern about poorly prepared and motivated students.

Subjects

• African Americans > Social conditions
• African American mathematicians > Interviews
• African American college teachers > Interviews
• Physicists > United States > Interviews
• Filmed interviews
• Jeffries, Jasper Brown > Political and social views
• Oral histories
• Jeffries, Jasper Brown, 1912-1994 > Interviews
• Manhattan Project (U.S.) Officials and employees

Genre/Form

• Oral histories.
• Interviews.
• Nonfiction films.

Terms of Use (note)

• Copyright by New York Public Library, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. Permission required to cite, quote and reproduce. Contact repository for information.

Biography (note)

• Mr. Jeffries is the former chairman of the mathematics dept. at Westchester Community College and worked on the Manhattan Project as a physicist.

Call Number

Sc Visual DVD-1186

OCLC

904782374

Author

Jeffries, Jasper Brown, 1912-1994, interviewee.

Title

Oral history interview with Jasper Brown Jeffries / Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture ; interview conducted by Kathleen J. Prestwidge.

Publisher

New York : Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, 1987.

Country of Producing Entity

United States.

Type of Content

two-dimensional moving image

Type of Medium

video

Type of Carrier

videodisc

Digital File Characteristics

video file DVD

Performer

Interviewer, Kathleen J. Prestwidge.

Event

Recorded February 3, 1987 Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, New York.

Terms Of Use

Copyright by New York Public Library, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. Permission required to cite, quote and reproduce. Contact repository for information.

Biography

Mr. Jeffries is the former chairman of the mathematics dept. at Westchester Community College and worked on the Manhattan Project as a physicist.

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Added Author

Prestwidge, K. J., interviewer.

Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture.

Research Call Number

Sc Visual DVD-1186

Sc Visual VRA-778