Research Catalog
The HistoryMakers video oral history with Geraldine Rhodes Kennedy.
- Title
- The HistoryMakers video oral history with Geraldine Rhodes Kennedy.
- Publication
- Chicago, Illinois : The HistoryMakers, [2016]
Available Online
Details
- Additional Authors
- Description
- 1 online resource (2 video files (57 min., 3 sec.)) : sound, color.
- Summary
- Dancer and manager Geraldine Rhodes-Kennedy was born in 1932 in Union, North Carolina. After high school, Rhodes-Kennedy moved to New York City to live with her sister, Florez. Rhodes-Kennedy began working in a bar frequented by former Apollo Theater and Cotton Club dancers. Hearing stories about the history and the times of the Apollo dancers, she decided to do a benefit for a senior citizens center, getting ex-chorus girls to put on a show. Dancer Bertye Lou Wood and Rhodes-Kennedy reunited with dancers Marion Coles, Cleo Hayes, Fay Ray and Elaine Ellis. Rhodes-Kennedy began managing the new group, which first performed at the Latin Casino in the Latin Quarter in 1986, and became known as the Silver Belles. These African American senior dancers appeared on Dan Rather's 48 Hours, and in 2006 were featured in a documentary, Been Rich All My Life, produced by filmmaker Heather Lyn MacDonald.
- Alternative Title
- History Makers video oral history with Geraldine Rhodes Kennedy
- Geraldine Rhodes Kennedy
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Internet videos.
- Interviews.
- Nonfiction films.
- Oral histories.
- Credits (note)
- Videographer, Neculai Burghelea.
- OCLC
- 1000519089
- Title
- The HistoryMakers video oral history with Geraldine Rhodes Kennedy.
- Publisher
- Chicago, Illinois : The HistoryMakers, [2016]
- Country of Producing Entity
- United States naf
- Playing Time
- 005703
- Type of Content
- two-dimensional moving image
- Type of Medium
- computer
- Type of Carrier
- online resource
- Digital File Characteristics
- video file
- Performer
- Adrienne Jones, interviewer.
- Credits
- Videographer, Neculai Burghelea.
- Event
- Recorded New York, New York 2007 September 20.
- Source of description
- Vendor-supplied metadata.
- Connect to:
- Indexed Term
- Dance Group Manager.
- Added Author
- Kennedy, Geraldine Rhodes, 1930-2017, interviewee.Jones, Adrienne (Interviewer), interviewer.Burghelea, Neculai, director of photography.HistoryMakers (Video oral history collection), production company.