Research Catalog

Title

The HistoryMakers video oral history with Robert B. Hill.

Publication

Chicago, Illinois : The HistoryMakers, [2016]

Details

Additional Authors

• Hill, Robert Bernard, 1938-
• Hamilton, Racine Tucker
• Hickey, Matthew
• HistoryMakers (Video oral history collection), production company.

Description

1 online resource (6 video files (2 hr., 38 min., 23 sec.)) : sound, color.

Summary

Sociologist Robert Hill was born on August 7, 1938 in Brooklyn, New York. He graduated from Boys High School in 1956 and earned his B.A. degree in sociology from City College of New York. From there, he earned his Ph.D. degree in sociology in 1969 from Columbia University. In 1969, he was hired to work at the National Urban League where he remained until 1981. In 1972, he published his first book, The Strength of Black Families. From 1981 until 1986, he worked for the Bureau of Sociology and Science Research. From 1986 until 1989 Hill worked as consultant to the White House for the Reagan Administration. From 1989 until 1998, Hill served as research director at Morgan State University. In 1999, He published The Strengths of African American Families: Twenty-Five Years Later. During that same year Hill was offered a position with Westat, a research firm in Rockville, Maryland where he remained.

Alternative Title

• History Makers video oral history with Robert B. Hill
• Robert B. Hill

Subject

• Hill, Robert Bernard, 1938- > Interviews
• African Americans > Interviews
• African Americans
• Sociologist

Genre/Form

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

Credits (note)

• Videographer, Matthew Hickey.

OCLC

997166393

Title

The HistoryMakers video oral history with Robert B. Hill.

Publisher

Chicago, Illinois : The HistoryMakers, [2016]

Country of Producing Entity

United States. naf

Playing Time

023823

Type of Content

two-dimensional moving image

Type of Medium

computer

Type of Carrier

online resource

Digital File Characteristics

video file

Performer

Racine Tucker Hamilton, interviewer.

Credits

Videographer, Matthew Hickey.

Event

Recorded Rockville, Maryland 2004 August 24.

Source of description

Vendor-supplied metadata.

Connect to:

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

Indexed Term

Sociologist.

Added Author

Hill, Robert Bernard, 1938- interviewee.

Hamilton, Racine Tucker, interviewer.

Hickey, Matthew, director of photography.

HistoryMakers (Video oral history collection), production company.