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The HistoryMakers video oral history with Lamonte McLemore
Title
The HistoryMakers video oral history with Lamonte McLemore.
Publication
Chicago, Illinois : The HistoryMakers, [2016]
Physical Description
1 online resource (6 video files (2 hr., 32 min., 44 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
Photographer and singer Lamonte McLemore was born on September 17, 1935 in St. Louis, Missouri. McLemore graduated from Sumner High School in 1952 and enlisted in the United States Navy where he worked as an aerial photographer. He was the first African American athlete to try out for the St. Louis Cardinals, as well as the first African American photographer hired by Harper's Bazaar magazine. McLemore was a photographer for Jet and Ebony magazines for over forty years. In the 1960s, he discovered the talents of Marilyn McCoo and Florence LaRue, offering them a chance to join a group he and his friends, Billy Davis, Jr. and Ron Townsend, were forming. Out of this collaboration, the 5th Dimension was created. Their biggest hit was Aquarius, which led to the album The Age of Aquarius, both going gold. In 1991, the original 5th Dimension received a star on Hollywood's Walk of Fame.
Variant and related titles
History Makers video oral history with Lamonte McLemore
Lamonte McLemore
HistoryMakers. OCLC KB.
Format
Images / Online / Video & Film
Language
English
Added to Catalog
February 04, 2021
Credits
Videographer, Matthew Hickey.
Performers
Denise Gines, 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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