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The HistoryMakers video oral history with Margo Jefferson.

Title
The HistoryMakers video oral history with Margo Jefferson.
Publication
Chicago, Illinois : The HistoryMakers, [2016]

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Details

Additional Authors
  • Jefferson, Margo, 1947-
  • Cole, Harriette
  • Stearns, Scott
  • HistoryMakers (Video oral history collection), production company.
Description
1 online resource (6 video files (2 hr., 47 min., 53 sec.)) : sound, color.
Summary
Professor and art critic Margo Jefferson was born on October 17, 1947 in Chicago, Illinois. She received her B.A. degree in English and American literature from Brandeis University in 1968, and her M.S. degree from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism in 1971. In 1973, Jefferson was hired as an associate editor for Newsweek magazine. She became an assistant professor at New York University in 1979, and, from 1984 to 1989, worked as an arts criticism contributing editor for Vogue magazine. In 1991, Jefferson was hired as a lecturer and later a professor of writing at Columbia University. In 1993, she accepted a position at the New York Times as a culture critic. While at the Times, she was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for criticism in 1995, and was promoted to critic-at-large in 1996. Jefferson's autobiography, Negroland, won the National Book Critics Circle Award for Autobiography in 2016.
Alternative Title
  • History Makers video oral history with Margo Jefferson
  • Margo Jefferson
Subject
  • Jefferson, Margo, 1947- > Interviews
  • Jefferson, Margo, 1947-
  • African Americans > Interviews
  • African Americans
  • Journalism Professor Art Critic
Genre/Form
  • Internet videos.
  • Interviews.
  • Nonfiction films.
  • Oral histories.
Credits (note)
  • Videographer, Scott Stearns.
OCLC
1000519364
Title
The HistoryMakers video oral history with Margo Jefferson.
Publisher
Chicago, Illinois : The HistoryMakers, [2016]
Country of Producing Entity
United States naf
Playing Time
024753
Type of Content
two-dimensional moving image
Type of Medium
computer
Type of Carrier
online resource
Digital File Characteristics
video file
Performer
Harriette Cole, interviewer.
Credits
Videographer, Scott Stearns.
Event
Recorded New York, New York 2017 January 20.
Source of description
Vendor-supplied metadata.
Connect to:
Available from home with a valid library card and onsite at NYPL
Indexed Term
Journalism Professor Art Critic.
Added Author
Jefferson, Margo, 1947- interviewee.
Cole, Harriette, interviewer.
Stearns, Scott, director of photography.
HistoryMakers (Video oral history collection), production company.
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