Research Catalog
The HistoryMakers video oral history with Ruth Brett Quarles.
- Title
- The HistoryMakers video oral history with Ruth Brett Quarles.
- Publication
- Chicago, Illinois : The HistoryMakers, [2016]
Available Online
Details
- Additional Authors
- Description
- 1 online resource (6 video files (2 hr., 42 min., 11 sec.)) : sound, color.
- Summary
- Educator Ruth Brett Quarles was born on November 23, 1914, in Winton, North Carolina. Graduating with honors from Shaw University in 1935, Quarles earned an M.A. degree from Hartford Seminary and an Ed.D. degree from Columbia University. Quarles began her lifelong career in education in 1936, as dean at Bennett College and Tuskegee Institute. She volunteered in Germany following World War II, where she helped displaced refugees. In 1956, she joined the staff of Morgan State University, where she remained until her retirement in 1980, serving in a number of posts, including director of counseling and academic advising. Quarles also served on the national board of directors of the YWCA and a number of other organizations. In 1982, the Ruth Brett Symposium was held in her honor at the University of Maryland. Her husband, renowned scholar Benjamin Quarles, passed away in 1996. Quarles passed away on January 16, 2007, at the age of 92.
- Alternative Title
- History Makers video oral history with Ruth Brett Quarles
- Ruth Brett Quarles
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Internet videos.
- Interviews.
- Nonfiction films.
- Oral histories.
- Credits (note)
- Videographer, Scott Stearns.
- OCLC
- 998757371
- Title
- The HistoryMakers video oral history with Ruth Brett Quarles.
- Publisher
- Chicago, Illinois : The HistoryMakers, [2016]
- Country of Producing Entity
- United States. naf
- Playing Time
- 024211
- Type of Content
- two-dimensional moving image
- Type of Medium
- computer
- Type of Carrier
- online resource
- Digital File Characteristics
- video file
- Performer
- Larry Crowe, interviewer.
- Credits
- Videographer, Scott Stearns.
- Event
- Recorded Mitchellville, Maryland 2003 November 11.
- Source of description
- Vendor-supplied metadata.
- Connect to:
- Indexed Term
- Academic Administrator.
- Added Author
- Quarles, Ruth Brett, 1914-2007, interviewee.Crowe, Larry F., interviewer.Stearns, Scott, director of photography.HistoryMakers (Video oral history collection), production company.