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Brown sugar

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Brown sugar

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Part 1.TextUse in library SC Visual VRA-130 Part 1.Schomburg Center - Moving Image & Recorded Sound

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Additional Authors
  • Pook, Matthew.
  • Williams, Billy Dee, 1937-
  • Bogle, Donald.
  • CEBA Collection.
Description
1 videocassette (60 minutes) : sd., col.; 1/2 in.
Summary
Examines the careers and influence of Black women entertainers in America using film clips, video clips, and interviews. Part one covers the early 20th century through the 1920s focussing on Josephine Baker and Bessie Smith. Part two looks at the stars of the Depression years including Billie Holiday, Hattie McDaniel, Freddie Washington, and Ethel Waters.
Subjects
Genre/Form
  • Public affairs television programs.
  • video.
With (note)
  • Library has part first part only.
Bibliography (note)
  • Based on the book: Brown sugar : eighty years of America's Black female superstars / by Donald Bogle
Credits (note)
  • German Educational Television Network ; [Transtel Productions] ; written by Donald Bogle ; produced by Matthew Pook. Host and narrator, Billy Dee Williams.
System Details (note)
  • VHS.
Linking Entry (note)
  • Forms part of the CEBA collection.
Call Number
Sc Visual VRA-130
Title
Brown sugar
With:
Library has part first part only.
Bibliography
Based on the book: Brown sugar : eighty years of America's Black female superstars / by Donald Bogle
Credits
German Educational Television Network ; [Transtel Productions] ; written by Donald Bogle ; produced by Matthew Pook. Host and narrator, Billy Dee Williams.
Linking Entry
Forms part of the CEBA collection.
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Added Author
CEBA Collection.
Pook, Matthew. Producer
Williams, Billy Dee, 1937- host.
Williams, Billy Dee, 1937- narrator.
Bogle, Donald.
Research Call Number
Sc Visual VRA-130
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