- Additional Authors
- Description
- 1 online resource (5 video files (2 hr., 19 min., 28 sec.)) : sound, color.
- Summary
- Pastor and politician the Reverend Emmitt Theophilus Caviness was born on May 23, 1928, in Marshall, Texas. Caviness earned his B.A. degree from Bishop College in Dallas, Texas, and his B.Div. Degree from Eden Theological Seminary in Webster Grove, Missouri. In 1961, Caviness began to serve as the senior pastor of the Greater Abyssinia Baptist Church in Cleveland, Ohio. He was a member/officer of the Baptist Minister's Conference of Cleveland and Vicinity, the Baptist Pastor's Council, the Planning Board of the Inter-Church Council, the Ohio Baptist General Convention, and the National Baptist Convention, U.S.A., Inc. He was president of the Cleveland Branch of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference; a member of the board of directors for the NAACP, CORE, and the Ohio Civil Rights Commission. Caviness also worked as the executive assistant to George V. Voinovich, former mayor of Cleveland and he was a member of the Cleveland City Council, 1974-80.
- Alternative Title
- History Makers video oral history with Reverend Theophilus Caviness
- Reverend Theophilus Caviness
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Internet videos.
- Interviews.
- Nonfiction films.
- Oral histories.
- Credits (note)
- Videographer, Matthew Hickey.
- OCLC
- 1000518759
- Title
The HistoryMakers video oral history with Reverend Theophilus Caviness.
- Publisher
Chicago, Illinois : The HistoryMakers, [2016]
- Country of Producing Entity
United States naf
- Playing Time
021928
- Type of Content
two-dimensional moving image
- Type of Medium
computer
- Type of Carrier
online resource
- Digital File Characteristics
video file
- Performer
Regennia Williams, interviewer.
- Credits
Videographer, Matthew Hickey.
- Event
Recorded Cleveland, Ohio 2004 June 16.
- Source of description
Vendor-supplied metadata.
- Connect to:
- Indexed Term
Pastor.
- Added Author
Caviness, Theophilus, 1928- interviewee.
Williams, Regennia N., interviewer.
Hickey, Matthew, director of photography.
HistoryMakers (Video oral history collection), production company.