Black History - The Gift

DateJanuary 21 1988

Can DescriptionsMaster Black History X4614 Dreams of Enterprise Rec. 1/21/88 Air. 2/1/88 The Gift Sheet of paper taped to can notes 2nd show on reel 2/16/88

Abstract[Includes images of lynching.] Slate: “Black History The Gift VT: X-4614 Air: 2/01/88 Producer: Nurse”. Title: “The Gift”. Louis Gossett Jr. hosts an episode about Black musicians. Discussion of slavery, the Civil War, the Fisk Jubilee Singers, Jim Crow laws, minstrel shows, ragtime, jazz, King Oliver (Joseph Nathan Oliver) and the Creole Jazz Band, Jelly Roll Morton (Ferdinand Joseph Morton), Louis Armstrong, the blues, Fletcher Henderson, Edward Kennedy (Duke) Ellington, the Great Depression, swing, gospel, Billie Holiday, Ella Fitzgerald, Lena Horne, the Cotton Club, Cab Calloway, Thelonious Monk, Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie, bebop, R&B, Rock n’ Roll, Miles Davis, Charles Mingus, John Coltrane, Civil Rights era, Motown, Diana Ross, Prince (Prince Rogers Nelson), and Michael Jackson. Includes clips of interviews with Associate Professor of Music at Roxbury Community College Betty Hillmon, musicologist Mary Jo Sanna, and musicians B.B. King, Sammy Price, George Mayweather, Silas Hubbard, and Levi Stubbs.

OtherCredits: Produced by Karl Nurse; Hosted by Louis Gossett, Jr.; Written by Steve Hemingway; Researched by Lillian Baldwin, Erika Mobley; Additional Writing: Karl Nurse, Barbara Brown; Assistant to the Producer: Monique Walker; Photography by Howard Rouse, Dick Dunham, Robert Oliver; Sound Recordists: Doug Dike, Gretchen Soehner, Robert Hakkila; Editor: Jeff Brawer; Post Production: Doug DeVitt, Lisa Borge, George Ellard, Dave Teixeira; Graphics: Yu-Ling Wang; Photograph Collections: Moorland Springarn Research Center; Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Library of Congress, National Archives, DuSable Museum of Afro-American History; Carl Van Vechton collection Joseph Solomon, Director, Boston Public Library; Vice President of Community Programming: Donna Latson-Gittens; Vice President of Programming: Paul LaCamera

OtherIn the studio Karl Nurse, Steve Hemingway, Lillian Baldwin, Erika Mobley, Barbara Brown, Monique Walker, Howard Rouse, Dick Dunham, Robert Oliver, Doug Dike, Gretchen Soehner, Robert Hakkila, Jeff Brawer, Doug DeVitt, Lisa Borge, George Ellard, Dave Teixeira, Yu-Ling Wang, Moorland Springarn Research Center, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Library of Congress, National Archives, DuSable Museum of Afro-American History, Carl Van Vechton Collection, Boston Public Library, Donna Latson-Gittens, Paul LaCamera;