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The HistoryMakers video oral history with Reverend Dr. Lena McLin
Title
The HistoryMakers video oral history with Reverend Dr. Lena McLin.
Publication
Chicago, Illinois : The HistoryMakers, [2016]
Physical Description
1 online resource (5 video files (2 hr., 21 min., 30 sec.)) : sound, color.
Local Notes
Access is available to the Yale community.
Notes
Videographer, Scott Stearns.
Access and use
Access restricted by licensing agreement.
Summary
Educator and pastor Lena McLin was born September 5, 1928 in Atlanta, Georgia. Her uncle, Thomas A. Dorsey, was known as the father of gospel music. She attended Chicago's McCosh Elementary School and was an accompanist for her uncle's Pilgrim Baptist Church choir. She graduated from Atlanta's Booker T. Washington High School in 1947. At Spelman College, McLin earned her B.M. degree in 1951. McLin also attended Chicago's American Conservatory of Music, Roosevelt University and Chicago State University. Her teaching career began at Hess Upper Grade Center in 1959. As music department chair of Kenwood Academy High School, McLin mentored Mandy Patinkin, Mark Rucker, Maggie Brown, Kim English and Robert "R" Kelly. In 1977, McLin wrote, Pulse: A History of Music. In 1982, she founded Holy Vessel Baptist Church. McLin published over 400 compositions and was a lecturer and workshop leader. McLin received the Outstanding Teacher Award in 1983.
Variant and related titles
History Makers video oral history with Reverend Dr. Lena McLin
Reverend Dr. Lena McLin
HistoryMakers. OCLC KB.
Format
Images / Online / Video & Film
Language
English
Added to Catalog
February 04, 2021
Credits
Videographer, Scott Stearns.
Performers
Larry Crowe, interviewer.
Subjects
Genre/Form
Internet videos.
Interviews.
Nonfiction films.
Oral histories.
Oral histories.
Internet videos.
Nonfiction films.
Also listed under
HistoryMakers (Video oral history collection), production company.
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