Research Catalog

Title

Jackie Shearer audio and moving image collection : 98 items.

Author

Shearer, Jacqueline

Publication

[1994]

Items in the Library & Off-site

Details

Additional Authors

Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. Moving Image and Recorded Sound Division.

Description

• 88 videocassettes
• 10 audiocassettes

Summary

The collection consists of 10 audio recordings and 88 moving image recordings reflecting her career as a filmmaker.

Subjects

• Video recordings
• Sound recordings
• Motion pictures > United States
• African Americans in the performing arts
• African American women household employees
• African American soldiers
• Motion picture authorship
• United States > History > Civil War, 1861-1865
• Women cinematographers > United States
• African American women authors
• African American women screenwriters
• African American women motion picture producers and directors
• United States > Army > Massachusetts Infantry Regiment, 54th (1863-1865)
• United States > Army > African American troops
• Shearer, Jacqueline
• Shaw, Robert Gould, 1837-1863

Genre/Form

• Sound recordings.
• Video recordings.

Source (note)

• Jackie Shearer Estate

Biography (note)

• Jacqueline Anne Shearer (Nov. 30, 1946 - Nov. 26, 1993, Boston, MA) was an African-American independent producer and director of documentary films about African Americans; she was committed to using media as a tool for social change. Her completed work includes "A Minor Altercation" (1976), a dramatic film about the Boston school busing crisis was used to promote discussion of racism and desegregation. Shearer produced and directed, and wrote, along with Leslie Lee, "The Massachusetts Colored 54th Infantry" (1991) for the PBS series "The American Experience." This one-hour documentary emphasizes the role of Boston's free black abolitionist community in forming the first African-American Civil War regiment. In 1979 she began a decade-long endeavor to complete a feature film entitled "Addie and the Pink Carnations" depicting the social history of black women domestic workers during the Depression. Shearer also directed "The Incident Report" (1984), a dramatic training film exploring the issue of patient abuse in nursing homes. She produced, directed and wrote the multimedia video production "Going Up to Birmingham" (1992) for the permanent exhibition of the then newly opened Birmingham Civil Rights Institute in Alabama. This work focuses on Birmingham's early years and the racial divide that marked urban life.

Linking Entry (note)

• Forms part of: Jackie Shearer archive. Papers can be found in the Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books Division (Sc MG 560).

Call Number

Sc MIRS Shearer 1994-54

OCLC

1183029223

Author

Shearer, Jacqueline, creator.

Title

Jackie Shearer audio and moving image collection : 98 items.

Publisher

[1994]

Biography

Jacqueline Anne Shearer (Nov. 30, 1946 - Nov. 26, 1993, Boston, MA) was an African-American independent producer and director of documentary films about African Americans; she was committed to using media as a tool for social change. Her completed work includes "A Minor Altercation" (1976), a dramatic film about the Boston school busing crisis was used to promote discussion of racism and desegregation. Shearer produced and directed, and wrote, along with Leslie Lee, "The Massachusetts Colored 54th Infantry" (1991) for the PBS series "The American Experience." This one-hour documentary emphasizes the role of Boston's free black abolitionist community in forming the first African-American Civil War regiment. In 1979 she began a decade-long endeavor to complete a feature film entitled "Addie and the Pink Carnations" depicting the social history of black women domestic workers during the Depression. Shearer also directed "The Incident Report" (1984), a dramatic training film exploring the issue of patient abuse in nursing homes. She produced, directed and wrote the multimedia video production "Going Up to Birmingham" (1992) for the permanent exhibition of the then newly opened Birmingham Civil Rights Institute in Alabama. This work focuses on Birmingham's early years and the racial divide that marked urban life.

Linking Entry

Forms part of: Jackie Shearer archive. Papers can be found in the Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books Division (Sc MG 560).

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Added Author

Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. Moving Image and Recorded Sound Division.

Research Call Number

Sc MIRS Shearer 1994-54