- Additional Authors
- Description
- 1 online resource (7 video files (3 hr., 22 min., 14 sec.)) : sound, color.
- Summary
- Newspaper reporter and author Rachel L. Swarns was born in 1967 in Queens, New York. Swarns attended Howard University in Washington, D.C., and received her B.A. degree in Spanish and African and Caribbean Studies. She went on to receive her M.A. degree in international relations from the University of Kent in Canterbury, England. Upon graduation, Swarns was hired as a newspaper reporter for the St. Petersburg Times from 1987 to 1991, and then as a general assignment reporter at the Miami Herald. In 1995, Swarns joined The New York Times as a correspondent. From 1999 to 2003, she served as the Johannesburg bureau chief. Swarns was later assigned as a metro columnist for The New York Times, where she wrote the weekly column The Working Life which focused on labor and the economy. In 2012, Swarns authored American Tapestry: The Story of the Black, White and Multiracial Ancestors of Michelle Obama.
- Alternative Title
- History Makers video oral history with Rachel Swarns
- Rachel Swarns
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Internet videos.
- Interviews.
- Nonfiction films.
- Oral histories.
- Credits (note)
- Videographer, Scott Stearns.
- OCLC
- 1003150841
- Title
The HistoryMakers video oral history with Rachel Swarns.
- Publisher
Chicago, Illinois : The HistoryMakers, [2016]
- Country of Producing Entity
United States naf
- Playing Time
032214
- Type of Content
two-dimensional moving image
- Type of Medium
computer
- Type of Carrier
online resource
- Digital File Characteristics
video file
- Performer
Julieanna L. Richardson, interviewer.
- Credits
Videographer, Scott Stearns.
- Event
Recorded New York, New York 2014 January 15.
- Source of description
Vendor-supplied metadata.
- Connect to:
- Indexed Term
Newspaper Reporter.
- Added Author
Swarns, Rachel L., interviewee.
Richardson, Julieanna L., interviewer.
Stearns, Scott, director of photography.
HistoryMakers (Video oral history collection), production company.