Research Catalog

Title

Oral history interview with Mother Palmer, 21 January 1986/ interviewed by Victor Smythe.

Author

Mother Palmer.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Smythe, Victor N.
• Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. Oral History Video Documentation Program.
• Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture.

Description

1 videodisc : sd., col.; 1/2 in.

Summary

The Oral History Interview with Mother Palmer provides a glimpse of her early years, documents the black community's evolving interest in Ethiopia during the later 1940s through the early 1970s, and provides a history of the Holy Trinity Ethiopian Orthodox Church, Bronx, N.Y.

Alternative Title

Interview with Elizabeth Palmer

Subject

• Mother Palmer > Interviews
• YaʼItyoṗyā ʼortodoks tawāḥedo béta kerestiyān
• Ethiopian World Federation
• Holy Trinity Ethiopian Orthodox Church (Bronx, N.Y.)
• African American churches
• African Americans > Music
• African American women musicians
• Church music
• United States > Church history

Genre/Form

• Interviews.
• Oral history.

Note

• Title supplied; duration: 46 min.
• Title on container: Interview with Elizabeth Palmer.

Event (note)

• Recorded on January 21, 1986, at Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Oral History Video Documentation Program.

System Details (note)

• VHS.

Terms of Use (note)

• Permission required to cite, quote, and reproduce; contact repository.

Biography (note)

• Mother Palmer (Elizabeth Palmer) was the Music Director at the Holy Trinity Ethiopian Orthodox Church, Bronx, N.Y.

Linking Entry (note)

• Forms part of: Oral History Video Documentation Program.

Call Number

Sc Visual DVD-1522

OCLC

NYPG95-F90

Author

Mother Palmer. Interviewee

Title

Oral history interview with Mother Palmer, 21 January 1986/ interviewed by Victor Smythe.

Playing Time

004600

Original Version

Reproduction. Originally produced : New York, N.Y. : Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Moving Image and Recorded Sound Division, The New York Public Library; 1 videocassette ; 3/4 in.

Event

Recorded on January 21, 1986, at Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Oral History Video Documentation Program.

System Details

VHS.

Terms Of Use

Permission required to cite, quote, and reproduce; contact repository.

Linking Entry

Forms part of: Oral History Video Documentation Program.

Biography

Mother Palmer (Elizabeth Palmer) was the Music Director at the Holy Trinity Ethiopian Orthodox Church, Bronx, N.Y. She was born in 1908 in Darlington, South Carolina and came to Harlem in 1918. Palmer was active in the field of music throughout her life, although she did not take up formal study until her children were grown. She has written music and poetry.

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Added Author

Smythe, Victor N. Interviewer

Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. Oral History Video Documentation Program.

Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture.

Research Call Number

Sc Visual DVD-1522

Sc Visual VRA-73 Additional copy.

Sc Visual VRB-2003 Archival original.