Black History - Special

DateDecember 5 1988

Can DescriptionsBlack History X5124 Special Rec. 12/5/88

AbstractTitle: “To See The Glory”. John Amos hosts an episode about Black soldiers during the American Civil War. Includes clips of interviews with Bowdoin College Literary Historian Gayle Pemberton; Yale University Assistant Professor of History Melvin Ely; Historian of Afro-American History Byron Rushing; Discussion of abolitionists, Abraham Lincoln, emancipation, Black volunteers in the Union Army, the Port Royal Experiment, ironclad ships, including Black sailors on the ‘Monitor’, and the Louisiana Native Guard.

OtherCredits: Produced by Karl Nurse; Hosted by John Amos; Written by Steve Hemingway; Script Editor: Clif Garboden; Assistant to the Producer: Erika Mobley; Videographers: Howard Rouse, John Sullivan, Dick Erickson; Sound Recordists: Doug Dike, Bayard Peabody, Jr.; Editors: Mary Driscoll, Kathy Baker; Post Production: Doug DeVitt, David Teixeira; Stage Managers: Scott Philbrick, B. Geoffrey Lans, Kif Williams; Talent Coordinator: Sheila Frazier; Original Music: Tony Rose; Graphic Design: Susan Muldoon; Photography Collection: Moorland Spingarn Research Center; Shomberg Center For Research in Black Culture, Library of Congress, National Archives, Dusable Museum of Afro-American History; Carl Van Vechton Collection, Boston Public Library; Vice President of Community Programming: Donna Latson-Gittens; Vice President of Programming: Paul LaCamera