- Additional Authors
- Description
- 1 online resource (6 video files (2 hr., 44 min., 24 sec.)) : sound, color.
- Summary
- Government appointee and minister Reverend Suzan Johnson Cook was born on January 28, 1957, in New York City. She attended Fisk University and transferred to Emerson College in Boston where she earned her B. S. degree in speech in 1976; her M. A. degree in education from Columbia University in New York City; and her M. Div. degree (1983) and her D. Min. in (1990) from Union Theological Seminary. She also completed Harvard University's President's Administrative Fellows Program. In 1983, Cook was appointed pastor of the Mariner's Temple Baptist Church in lower Manhattan, becoming the first African American woman to be named pastor by the American Baptist Association. In 1990, New York City Mayor David Dinkins appointed Cook as the first women chaplain to the New York Police Department. In 1996, she became founder and senior pastor of the Bronx Fellowship Christian Church. From 2011 to 2013, she served as United States Ambassador-at-Large for International Religious Freedom.
- Alternative Title
- History Makers video oral history with The Honorable Reverend Dr. Suzan Johnson Cook
- The Honorable Reverend Dr. Suzan Johnson Cook
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Internet videos.
- Interviews.
- Nonfiction films.
- Oral histories.
- Credits (note)
- Videographer, Neculai Burghelea.
- OCLC
- 1003150391
- Title
The HistoryMakers video oral history with The Honorable Reverend Dr. Suzan Johnson Cook.
- Publisher
Chicago, Illinois : The HistoryMakers, [2016]
- Country of Producing Entity
United States naf
- Playing Time
024424
- Type of Content
two-dimensional moving image
- Type of Medium
computer
- Type of Carrier
online resource
- Digital File Characteristics
video file
- Performer
Shawn Wilson, interviewer.
Adrienne Jones, interviewer.
- Credits
Videographer, Neculai Burghelea.
- Event
Recorded New York, New York 2005 December 1.
Recorded New York, New York 2007 July 24.
- Source of description
Vendor-supplied metadata.
- Connect to:
- Indexed Term
Pastor.
- Added Author
Johnson Cook, Suzan D. (Suzan Denise), 1957- interviewee.
Wilson, Shawn, interviewer.
Jones, Adrienne (Interviewer), interviewer.
Burghelea, Neculai, director of photography.
HistoryMakers (Video oral history collection), production company.