Research Catalog

Title

The HistoryMakers video oral history with Bishop John Hurst Adams.

Publication

Chicago, Illinois : The HistoryMakers, [2016]

Details

Additional Authors

• Adams, John Hurst
• Anderson, Ed
• Jackson, Adrian
• HistoryMakers (Video oral history collection), production company.

Description

1 online resource (9 video files (4 hr., 4 min., 38 sec.)) : sound, color.

Summary

Bishop and college president John Hurst Adams was born on November 27, 1927 in Columbia, South Carolina. He earned his A.B. degree from Johnson C. Smith University as well as his S.T.B. degree and his S.T.M. degree from Boston University School of Theology. Adams began pastoring in 1950, while in seminary. He served briefly as a seminary faculty member at Payne Theological Seminary in Wilberforce, Ohio; then, in 1956, Adams began a six-year tenure as President of Paul Quinn College in Waco, Texas. Adams later pastored large African Methodist Episcopal congregations in Seattle, Washington and Los Angeles, California. In 1972, he was elected the eighty-seventh bishop of the African Methodist Episcopal Church and served as bishop of five Episcopal Districts during his thirty-two year tenure. Adams retired from active service in 2005 to serve as an adjunct professor at Candler School of Theology in Atlanta, Georgia.

Alternative Title

• History Makers video oral history with Bishop John Hurst Adams
• Bishop John Hurst Adams

Subject

• Adams, John Hurst > Interviews
• African Americans > Interviews
• African Americans
• Bishop

Genre/Form

• Internet videos.
• Interviews.
• Nonfiction films.
• Oral histories.

Credits (note)

• Videographer, Adrian Jackson.

OCLC

994208707

Title

The HistoryMakers video oral history with Bishop John Hurst Adams.

Publisher

Chicago, Illinois : The HistoryMakers, [2016]

Country of Producing Entity

United States. naf

Playing Time

040438

Type of Content

two-dimensional moving image

Type of Medium

computer

Type of Carrier

online resource

Digital File Characteristics

video file

Performer

Ed Anderson, interviewer.

Credits

Videographer, Adrian Jackson.

Event

Recorded Atlanta, Georgia 2005 November 29.

Source of description

Vendor-supplied metadata.

Connect to:

Available from home with a valid library card and onsite at NYPL

Indexed Term

Bishop.

Added Author

Adams, John Hurst, interviewee.

Anderson, Ed, interviewer.

Jackson, Adrian, director of photography.

HistoryMakers (Video oral history collection), production company.