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The HistoryMakers video oral history with Charles F. Harris
Title
The HistoryMakers video oral history with Charles F. Harris.
Publication
Chicago, Illinois : The HistoryMakers, [2016]
Physical Description
1 online resource (10 video files (4 hr., 52 min., 58 sec.)) : sound, color.
Local Notes
Access is available to the Yale community.
Notes
Videographer, Scott Stearns.
Videographer, Neculai Burghelea.
Access and use
Access restricted by licensing agreement.
Summary
Publisher Charles F. Harris was born on January 3, 1934 in Portsmouth, Virginia. After graduating in 1955 from Virginia State University with a B.A. degree, Harris began his publishing career in 1956 at Doubleday & Company. As an editor of Doubleday's Publishing Division, he launched the Zenith Book Series. In 1967, he joined Random House as senior editor where he edited Amistad and also acquired The Greatest by Muhammad Ali with Richard Durham. In 1971, Harris was recruited to create and manage the Howard University Press where he served as the first chief executive, supervising all book publishing. In 1986, he founded Amistad Press which included works by John H. Johnson and Arthur Ashe. It featured the Amistad Literary Series which contained studies of Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston, Richard Wright, Gloria Naylor, Alice Walker and Toni Morrison. Harris passed away on December 16, 2015 at age 81.
Variant and related titles
History Makers video oral history with Charles F. Harris
Charles F. Harris
HistoryMakers. OCLC KB.
Format
Images / Online / Video & Film
Language
English
Added to Catalog
February 04, 2021
Credits
Videographer, Scott Stearns.
Videographer, Neculai Burghelea.
Performers
Shawn Wilson, interviewer.
Subjects
Genre/Form
Internet videos.
Interviews.
Nonfiction films.
Oral histories.
Oral histories.
Internet videos.
Nonfiction films.
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