Black History - Black Women Rising

DateFebruary 21 1988

Can DescriptionsBlack History X4394 Black Women Rising

Donor-supplied NotesTitle: “Black Women Rising”. Jayne Kennedy Overton hosts an episode about Black women in the United States. Includes clips of interviews with Elma Lewis, Artistic Director for the National Center of Afro-American Artists; Marsha Darling, Assistant Professor of Black Studies at Wellesley College; Johnnella Butler, Chairperson of Afro-American Studies at Smith College; Joyce Scott, Lecturer of Afro-American Studies at Northeastern University; and E. Frances White, McArthur Professor of History at Hampshire College. Includes discussion of slavery, Sojourner Truth, Harriet Tubman, voting rights, the anti-lynching movement, stereotypes of Black women, Mary Church Terrell, Ida B. Wells, World War I and II, the Great Migration, Zora Neale Hurston, Bessie Smith, Ethel Waters, Jazz and Blues, Rosa Parks, Civil Rights, Lorrain Hansberry, Gwendolyn Brooks, Sonia Sanchez, Nicki Giovanni, and Shirley Chisholm.

OtherCredits: Produced by Karl Nurse; Written by Steve Hemingway; Host: Jayne Kennedy; Additional Writing: Karl Nurse, Barbara Brown; Cinematographers: Rodney Grace, David Skillicorn, Alice Daly; Editing: Alan Pratt, Dave Teixeira; Sound Recordists: James Fripp, Ellen Boyce, Lisa Borge; Post Production: Doug DeVitt, George Ellard; Stage Manager: Scot Philbrick; Graphics: Alisyn Blake; Assistant to Producer: Kathleen Nethersol; Photography Collection: The Shomberg [Schomburg] Center for Research in Black Culture; Film Archives: The National Black Programing Consortium; Vice-President of Community Programming: Donna Latson Gittens