Research Catalog

Title

The HistoryMakers video oral history with Reverend Eugene Rivers.

Publication

Chicago, Illinois : The HistoryMakers, [2016]

Details

Additional Authors

• Rivers, Eugene
• Crowe, Larry F.
• Burghelea, Neculai
• HistoryMakers (Video oral history collection), production company.

Description

1 online resource (6 video files (2 hr., 59 min., 21 sec.)) : sound, color.

Summary

Nonprofit chief executive and youth activist Reverend Eugene Franklin Rivers, III was born on April 9, 1950 in Boston, Massachusetts. Graduating from Philadelphia's Dobbins Vocational High School in 1968, he studied painting at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts. After attending Yale University in 1973, he enrolled in Harvard University in 1976. Rivers founded Azusa Christian Community in 1984 in Boston's Dorchester neighborhood, working to build grassroots leadership in one of America's worst inner city neighborhoods. President of the National Ten Point Leadership Foundation and the Ella J. Baker House, Rivers worked on issues of urban violence impacting African Americans. He authored Black Churches and the Challenge of U.S. Foreign and Development Policy (2001), An Open Letter to the U.S. Black Religious, Intellectual, and Political Leadership Regarding AIDS and the Sexual Holocaust in Africa (1999), and A Pastoral Letter to President George W. Bush on Bridging our Racial Divide (2001).

Alternative Title

• History Makers video oral history with Reverend Eugene Rivers
• Reverend Eugene Rivers

Subject

• Rivers, Eugene > Interviews
• African Americans > Interviews
• African Americans
• Nonprofit Chief Executive Pastor

Genre/Form

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

Credits (note)

• Videographer, Neculai Burghelea.

OCLC

998758386

Title

The HistoryMakers video oral history with Reverend Eugene Rivers.

Publisher

Chicago, Illinois : The HistoryMakers, [2016]

Country of Producing Entity

United States. naf

Playing Time

025921

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, Neculai Burghelea.

Event

Recorded Dorchester, Massachusetts 2007 February 12.

Recorded Dorchester, Massachusetts 2007 February 13.

Source of description

Vendor-supplied metadata.

Connect to:

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

Indexed Term

Nonprofit Chief Executive Pastor.

Added Author

Rivers, Eugene, interviewee.

Crowe, Larry F., interviewer.

Burghelea, Neculai, director of photography.

HistoryMakers (Video oral history collection), production company.