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The HistoryMakers video oral history with Vivian D. Hewitt
Title
The HistoryMakers video oral history with Vivian D. Hewitt.
Publication
Chicago, Illinois : The HistoryMakers, [2016]
Physical Description
1 online resource (8 video files (3 hr., 36 min., 30 sec.)) : sound, color.
Local Notes
Access is available to the Yale community.
Notes
Videographer, Matthew Hickey.
Access and use
Access restricted by licensing agreement.
Summary
Librarian and art collector Vivian Hewitt was born on February 17, 1920 in New Castle, Pennsylvania. Hewitt earned her B.S. degree from Carnegie-Mellon University in 1944 and began working as a librarian. By 1949, she was a librarian and instructor at Atlanta University. In 1956, she joined the Rockefeller Foundation. The Carnegie Endowment for International Peace hired Hewitt to be chief librarian in 1963, and she remained there until she retired in 1983. Hewitt and her husband, John, were avid art collectors, buying works wherever they traveled. After collecting Haitian works for fifteen years, they decided to focus on African American art and assembled a significant African American collection. The collection was bought by Bank of America and then gifted to the Afro-American Cultural Center in North Carolina. Hewitt remained active with her church and other organizations, and received numerous awards from various library associations including the Black Caucus of the American Library Association.
Variant and related titles
History Makers video oral history with Vivian D. Hewitt
Vivian D. Hewitt
HistoryMakers. OCLC KB.
Format
Images / Online / Video & Film
Language
English
Added to Catalog
February 04, 2021
Credits
Videographer, Matthew Hickey.
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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