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September 12, 2006
The Vernon D. Jarrett Lecture Series on Race and Education |
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The HistoryMakers: A New Primary Source for Scholars |
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Julieanna Richardson
2006 Vernon D. Jarrett Senior Fellow,
Great Cities Institute
President and Founder, The HistoryMakers
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Great Cities Institute
College of Urban Planning and Public Affairs
412 S. Peoria St., Suite 400
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The HistoryMakers is a national video archive of African American
life oral history interviews and operates as a special collection as
part of the Illinois state library system. The HistoryMakers' purpose is to
record, disseminate and preserve interviews, highlighting the accomplishments
of individual African Americans and African American-led groups or movements
and demonstrating the broad range of African American responses to the historical
events and trends of the 20th century. In its six years, The HistoryMakers has
grown into the nation’s largest African American video oral history archive,
with a collection of 1,400 interviews and a goal of 5,000 by 2011. The lecture
will focus on the archive, the stories that lie within and how the use of
innovative technology can create a scholarly resource.
This lecture is the first of a series as part of the Vernon D. Jarrett
Senior Fellow Program —- a new program established by the Great Cities
Institute at the University of Illinois at Chicago and the Vernon D. Jarrett
Foundation. In the tradition of Vernon Jarrett’s contribution to open discussion
of important urban issues, the program offers a lecture series, which brings public
intellectuals to share their analysis of current issues.
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