The HistoryMakers video oral history with Yosef ben-Jochannan.

Chicago, Illinois : The HistoryMakers, [2016]

1 online resource (4 video files (1 hr., 58 min., 13 sec.)) : sound, color.

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Videographer, Neculai Burghelea.

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Africana studies professor Yosef Alfredo Antonio Ben-Jochannan was born on December 31, 1918. Ben-Jochannan attended the Christian Stead School in St. Croix, United States Virgin Islands. After graduation from high school in 1934, ben-Jochannan received a B.S. degree in civil engineering from the University of Puerto Rico in 1938; and his M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in anthropology from the University of Havana. In 1947, he began leading educational tours to Egypt that would span decades. Ben-Jochannan became an adjunct professor at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York in 1976 and stayed in that position for eleven years. Ben-Jochannan published over forty-nine books and papers including We the Black Jews, Black Man of the Nile and His Family, and Africa: Mother of Western Civilizations. Ben-Jochannan worked closely with such Africana studies scholars as John Henrik Clarke, Edward Scobie, and Leonard Jeffries. Ben-Jochannan passed away on March 19, 2015 at the age of ninety-six.

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February 04, 2021

Videographer, Neculai Burghelea.

Denise Gines, interviewer.