Research Catalog

Title

The HistoryMakers video oral history with Jill Nelson.

Publication

Chicago, Illinois : The HistoryMakers, [2016]

Details

Additional Authors

• Nelson, Jill, 1952-
• Cole, Harriette
• Stearns, Scott
• HistoryMakers (Video oral history collection), production company.

Description

1 online resource (6 video files (2 hr., 25 min., 1 sec.)) : sound, color.

Summary

Journalist and author Jill Nelson was born on June 14, 1952 in Harlem, New York. She graduated with her B.A. degree from City College of New York in 1977 and received her M.S. degree from Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism in 1980. In 1986, Nelson was hired by the Washington Post, but left in 1990 to pursue freelance writing. She contributed to numerous publications, including The New York Times, Essence, Chicago Tribune, and USA Today. She wrote the screenplay for PBS-TV's "Mandella" in 1985. Nelson was a professor of journalism at the City College of New York. Nelson authored five books, including the best-selling memoir and winner of the American Book Award, Volunteer Slavery: My Authentic Negro Experience, as well as Straight, No Chaser: How I Became A Grown-Up Black Woman; Finding Martha's Vineyard: African Americans at Home on an Island, and the novels Sexual Healing and Let's Get It On.

Alternative Title

• History Makers video oral history with Jill Nelson
• Jill Nelson

Subject

• Nelson, Jill, 1952- > Interviews
• Nelson, Jill, 1952-
• African Americans > Interviews
• African Americans
• Author Journalist

Genre/Form

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

Credits (note)

• Videographer, Scott Stearns.

OCLC

1000519439

Title

The HistoryMakers video oral history with Jill Nelson.

Publisher

Chicago, Illinois : The HistoryMakers, [2016]

Country of Producing Entity

United States naf

Playing Time

022501

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 2016 November 11.

Source of description

Vendor-supplied metadata.

Connect to:

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

Indexed Term

Author Journalist.

Added Author

Nelson, Jill, 1952- interviewee.

Cole, Harriette, interviewer.

Stearns, Scott, director of photography.

HistoryMakers (Video oral history collection), production company.