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Oral history interview with Gerald Fraser

Title
Oral history interview with Gerald Fraser/ conducted by James Briggs Murray.
Author
Fraser, C. Gerald, 1925-2015
Publication
New York : Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, 2001.

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Additional Authors
  • Murray, James Briggs.
  • Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture.
  • Black Journalists Oral History Project.
Description
2 videodiscs (DVD) (90 min.) : sd., col.; 4 3/4 in.
Summary
Recounts his early life and education, his early interest in journalism and the beginning of his professional career with the New York Amsterdam News. He describes the segregation of the news industry and his struggles to overcome racial discrimination. He left the Amsterdam News to cover the United Nations. A contact with a fellow journalists got him a job with the New York Daily News. He broke ground when he joined the staff of the New York Times, but still encountered racial discrimination in the news room.
Subjects
Genre/Form
Oral history.
Credits (note)
  • Produced and directed by James Briggs Murray.
Event (note)
  • Recorded on 10 May 2001 at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture as part of the Black Journalists Oral History Project.
Original Version (note)
  • Archival original: 2 videocassettes (MII) in Sc Visual VRC-26.
Biography (note)
  • Gerald Fraser is a pioneering Black journalist. He graduated from the University of Wisconsin in 1946 with a B.A. in Economics. Began his professional career with the Amsterdam News. From 1963 to 1967 worked the New York Daily News national and foreign news desk. Moved to New York Times in 1967 as metropolitan staff reporter.
Call Number
Sc Visual DVD-1011.
OCLC
701249919
Author
Fraser, C. Gerald, 1925-2015 Interviewee
Title
Oral history interview with Gerald Fraser/ conducted by James Briggs Murray.
Imprint
New York : Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, 2001.
Credits
Produced and directed by James Briggs Murray.
Event
Recorded on 10 May 2001 at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture as part of the Black Journalists Oral History Project.
Biography
Gerald Fraser is a pioneering Black journalist. He graduated from the University of Wisconsin in 1946 with a B.A. in Economics. Began his professional career with the Amsterdam News. From 1963 to 1967 worked the New York Daily News national and foreign news desk. Moved to New York Times in 1967 as metropolitan staff reporter.
Original Version
Archival original: 2 videocassettes (MII) in Sc Visual VRC-26.
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Added Author
Murray, James Briggs. Interviewer
Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture.
Black Journalists Oral History Project.
Research Call Number
Sc Visual DVD-1011. Service copy.
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