- Additional Authors
- Description
- 1 online resource (4 video files (1 hr., 31 min., 29 sec.)) : sound, color.
- Summary
- Civil rights activist Reverend Alfred "Al" Sharpton was born in Brooklyn, New York in 1954. He was licensed and ordained as a minister at the age of nine, and in 1971, he founded the National Youth Movement. For seventeen years, Sharpton led the organization, registering young people to vote and giving them job opportunities. In 1991, he formed the National Action Network to fight for progressive social change. He developed a reputation for organizing voter education and registration campaigns, economic support for small community businesses, and confronting corporate racism. In 1999, Sharpton, former New York City Mayor Ed Koch and Harvard Law School professor Charles Ogletree formed Second Chance, a program to serve nonviolent felony offenders after their release from prison. Sharpton orchestrated a massive protest when police shot unarmed Amadou Diallo 42 times in 1999. In 2001, Sharpton protested the U.S. Navy's bombing of the Puerto Rican island of Vieques.
- Alternative Title
- History Makers video oral history with Reverend Al Sharpton
- Reverend Al Sharpton
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Internet videos.
- Interviews.
- Nonfiction films.
- Oral histories.
- Credits (note)
- Videographer, Scott Stearns.
- OCLC
- 1000518545
- Title
The HistoryMakers video oral history with Reverend Al Sharpton.
- Publisher
Chicago, Illinois : The HistoryMakers, [2016]
- Country of Producing Entity
United States naf
- Playing Time
013129
- Type of Content
two-dimensional moving image
- Type of Medium
computer
- Type of Carrier
online resource
- Digital File Characteristics
video file
- Performer
Julieanna L. Richardson, interviewer.
- Credits
Videographer, Scott Stearns.
- Event
Recorded New York, New York 2002 March 4.
- Source of description
Vendor-supplied metadata.
- Connect to:
- Indexed Term
Community Activist Minister Civil Rights Leader.
- Added Author
Sharpton, Al, interviewee.
Richardson, Julieanna L., interviewer.
Stearns, Scott, director of photography.
HistoryMakers (Video oral history collection), production company.