- Additional Authors
- Description
- 1 online resource (5 video files (2 hr., 22 min., 26 sec.)) : sound, color.
- Summary
- Civil rights activist and minister Reverend Gardner Taylor was born on June 18, 1918 in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, and began on the path that led to becoming the senior pastor of the Concord Baptist Church of Christ in Brooklyn, New York. A stellar reputation as a social activist and theologian, Taylor's sermons were widely read. Taylor enrolled in the Oberlin Graduate School of Theology, where he met and married Laura Bell Scott. After unsuccessfully seeking the presidency of the National Baptist Church Convention in 1961, he and his followers formed the Progressive National Baptist Convention. Taylor taught at prominent divinity schools, including Harvard and Yale. Becoming senior pastor emeritus of Concord, his peers named him the greatest African American preacher and one of America's greatest preachers, as reported in Ebony magazine in 1993. President Bill Clinton bestowed Taylor with the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2000. He passed away on April 5, 2015.
- Alternative Title
- History Makers video oral history with Reverend Gardner Taylor
- Reverend Gardner Taylor
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Internet videos.
- Interviews.
- Nonfiction films.
- Oral histories.
- Credits (note)
- Videographer, Scott Stearns.
- OCLC
- 1003150067
- Title
The HistoryMakers video oral history with Reverend Gardner Taylor.
- Publisher
Chicago, Illinois : The HistoryMakers, [2016]
- Country of Producing Entity
United States naf
- Playing Time
022226
- Type of Content
two-dimensional moving image
- Type of Medium
computer
- Type of Carrier
online resource
- Digital File Characteristics
video file
- Performer
Larry Crowe, interviewer.
- Credits
Videographer, Scott Stearns.
- Event
Recorded New York, New York 2002 March 5.
- Source of description
Vendor-supplied metadata.
- Connect to:
- Indexed Term
Civil Rights Activist Minister Nonprofit Chief Executive.
- Added Author
Taylor, Gardner C., interviewee.
Crowe, Larry F., interviewer.
Stearns, Scott, director of photography.
HistoryMakers (Video oral history collection), production company.