Research Catalog

Title

Schomburg Commission for the Preservation of Black Culture.

Publication

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

Items in the Library & Off-site

Details

Additional Authors

• Belafonte, Harry, 1927-2023
• Bogle, Donald
• Davis, Ossie
• Dinkins, David N.
• Dodson, Howard
• Greaves, William
• Gregorian, Vartan
• Jacobs, Phoebe
• Litwack, Leon F.
• Hutson, Jean Blackwell, 1914-1998
• Miles, William, 1931-2013
• Morrison, Toni
• Robeson, Paul, Jr., 1927-2014
• Shabazz, Betty
• Taylor, Billy, 1921-2010
• Vega, Marta Moreno
• Yellin, Jean Fagan
• Mother African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church (New York, N.Y.)
• Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture.

Description

13 videodiscs (243 min.) : sound, color; 4 3/4 in.

Summary

A ceremony to formally launch the establishment of a national iniative by the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture to preserve the records of the Black past. After the ceremony at the Mother African Methodist Episcopal Church, the event moves to the Schomburg Center where the curators of the various collections discuss their holdings.

Subjects

• African diaspora
• Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture
• Filmed interviews
• Filmed speeches
• African Americans > History

Genre/Form

• Interviews.
• Speeches.
• Nonfiction films.

Note

• Discs 1-4 take place at the Mother African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church. Discs 5-13 take place at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture.

Contents

Disc 1. Church introduction, featuring Howard Dodson and David Dinkins and representatives of the African Methodist Episcopal Church (19 min.) -- Disc 2. Features Toni Morrison (18 min.) -- Disc 3. Howard Dodson, Vartan Gregorian, Toni Morrison and Ossie Davis (18 min.) -- Disc 4. Ossie Davis, Harry Belafonte (7 min.) -- Disc 5. Interview with Billy Taylor ; interview with Betty Shabazz ; interview with Paul Robeson, Jr. ; interview with Jean Blackwell Hutson ; interview with Marta Vega ; interview with Ossie Davis ; interview with Phoebe Jacobs ; interview with Leon Litwack (20 min.) -- Disc 6. Introduction, Howard Dodson; Harry Belafonte (23 min.) -- Disc 7. Harry Belafonte, continued; Howard Dodson introduces scholars who utilize the resources of the Schomburg Center: Jean Yellin, William Miles, William Greaves, Henry Louis Gates, Jr. (22 min.) -- Disc 8. Jean Yellin; William Miles; (21 min.) -- Disc 9. Donald Bogle; Q&A with the scholars ; Howard Dodson introduces the collection curators of the Schomburg Center (23 min.) -- Disc 10. Schomburg Collection curators (22 min.) -- Disc 11. Schomburg Collection curators, continued (22 min.) -- Disc 12. Howard Dodson (22 min.) -- Disc 13. Ossie Davis closing remarks (6 min.)

Call Number

Sc Visual Sc Visual DVD-1430

OCLC

962758683

Title

Schomburg Commission for the Preservation of Black Culture.

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

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Added Author

Belafonte, Harry, 1927-2023, interviewee.

Bogle, Donald, speaker.

Davis, Ossie, interviewee.

Dinkins, David N., speaker.

Dodson, Howard, speaker.

Greaves, William, speaker.

Gregorian, Vartan, speaker.

Jacobs, Phoebe, interviewee.

Litwack, Leon F., interviewee.

Hutson, Jean Blackwell, 1914-1998, interviewee.

Miles, William, 1931-2013, speaker.

Morrison, Toni, speaker.

Robeson, Paul, Jr., 1927-2014, interviewee.

Shabazz, Betty, interviewee.

Taylor, Billy, 1921-2010, interviewee.

Vega, Marta Moreno, interviewee.

Yellin, Jean Fagan, speaker.

Mother African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church (New York, N.Y.)

Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture.

Research Call Number

Sc Visual Sc Visual DVD-1430