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The HistoryMakers video oral history with Juliet Dobbs Blackburn-Beamon.

Title
The HistoryMakers video oral history with Juliet Dobbs Blackburn-Beamon.
Publication
Chicago, Illinois : The HistoryMakers, [2016]

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Details

Additional Authors
  • Blackburn-Beamon, Juliet Dobbs, 1937-
  • Brock, Paul, 1932-
  • Hickey, Matthew
  • HistoryMakers (Video oral history collection), production company.
Description
1 online resource (6 video files (2 hr., 56 min., 36 sec.)) : sound, color.
Summary
Foundation executive and humanities professor Juliet Dobbs Blackburn-Beamon, was born on October 3, 1937, in Atlanta, Georgia. She grew up in Jackson, Mississippi, where her mother taught at Jackson College for Negro Teachers, now Jackson State University. Graduating from Spelman College in 1958, she earned her M.S. degree from New York University in 1959 and her Ph.D. from Clark Atlanta in 1996. Before her academic career, Blackburn-Beamon worked for Lane Bryant and later for the State of New York Department of Labor. In 1996, she became chair of the Art and Architectural Studies Department at Morris Brown College, in addition to teaching at Spelman and Clark Atlanta Universities. In 2004, Blackburn-Beamon created the John W. Dobbs Foundation in honor of her maternal grandfather. She also served on the board of Atlanta's Center for Puppetry Arts. Blackburn-Beamon received numerous awards and honors, including the Leadership Atlanta Award in 1994.
Alternative Title
  • History Makers video oral history with Juliet Dobbs Blackburn-Beamon
  • Juliet Dobbs Blackburn-Beamon
Subject
  • Blackburn-Beamon, Juliet Dobbs, 1937- > Interviews
  • African Americans > Interviews
  • African Americans
  • Foundation Executive Humanities Professor
Genre/Form
  • Internet videos.
  • Interviews.
  • Nonfiction films.
  • Oral histories.
Credits (note)
  • Videographer, Matthew Hickey.
OCLC
994208208
Title
The HistoryMakers video oral history with Juliet Dobbs Blackburn-Beamon.
Publisher
Chicago, Illinois : The HistoryMakers, [2016]
Country of Producing Entity
United States. naf
Playing Time
025636
Type of Content
two-dimensional moving image
Type of Medium
computer
Type of Carrier
online resource
Digital File Characteristics
video file
Performer
Paul Brock, interviewer.
Credits
Videographer, Matthew Hickey.
Event
Recorded Atlanta, Georgia 2005 August 1.
Source of description
Vendor-supplied metadata.
Connect to:
Available from home with a valid library card and onsite at NYPL
Indexed Term
Foundation Executive Humanities Professor.
Added Author
Blackburn-Beamon, Juliet Dobbs, 1937- interviewee.
Brock, Paul, 1932- interviewer.
Hickey, Matthew, director of photography.
HistoryMakers (Video oral history collection), production company.
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