Research Catalog

Title

The HistoryMakers video oral history with King V. Cheek, Jr.

Publication

Chicago, Illinois : The HistoryMakers, [2016]

Details

Additional Authors

• Cheek, King Vergil
• Hamilton, Racine Tucker
• Lane, Edgar Carey
• HistoryMakers (Video oral history collection), production company.

Description

1 online resource (4 video files (1 hr., 37 min., 55 sec.)) : sound, color.

Summary

College president King Virgil Cheek was born on May 26, 1937, in Weldon, North Carolina. He earned his B.A. degree in economics from Bates College in Lewiston, Maine in 1959; his M.A. degree from the University of Chicago in 1967; and his J.D. degree from the University of Chicago in 1969. Cheek was a college dean and vice president at Shaw University in North Carolina. In 1969, he was appointed president of Shaw. He was then named president of Morgan State University in Baltimore, where he worked until 1974. He became vice president of the Union for Experimenting Colleges and Universities, later serving as its president from 1976 to 1978. Cheek developed the Center for Leadership and Career Development in Washington, D.C. He served in a number of posts at New York Institute of Technology. Cheek also worked to launch non-traditional medical schools in Africa, Asia and Europe.

Alternative Title

• History Makers video oral history with King V. Cheek, Jr.
• King V. Cheek, Jr.

Subject

• Cheek, King Vergil > Interviews
• Cheek, King Vergil
• African Americans > Interviews
• African Americans
• University President

Genre/Form

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

Credits (note)

• Videographer, Edgar Carey Lane.

OCLC

1000518758

Title

The HistoryMakers video oral history with King V. Cheek, Jr.

Publisher

Chicago, Illinois : The HistoryMakers, [2016]

Country of Producing Entity

United States naf

Playing Time

013755

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, Edgar Carey Lane.

Event

Recorded Silver Spring, Maryland 2004 June 14.

Source of description

Vendor-supplied metadata.

Connect to:

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

Indexed Term

University President.

Added Author

Cheek, King Vergil, interviewee.

Hamilton, Racine Tucker, interviewer.

Lane, Edgar Carey, director of photography.

HistoryMakers (Video oral history collection), production company.