The HistoryMakers video oral history with Charles D. Churchwell.

Chicago, Illinois : The HistoryMakers, [2016]

1 online resource (6 video files (2 hr., 56 min., 48 sec.)) : sound, color.

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Videographer, Scott Stearns.

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Library administrator and professor Charles Darrett Churchwell was born on November 7, 1926, in Dunnellon, Florida. Churchwell earned his B.S. degree in mathematics from Morehouse College in Atlanta; his M. L. S. degree from Atlanta University in 1953; and his Ph.D. degree from the University of Illinois at Urbana in 1966, the first African American to receive an advanced degree from UI-Urbana. Later, he was associate director of libraries, at the University of Houston, the first African-American to break the school's faculty color barrier. Churchwell then held positions as library director at Ohio's Miami University, university librarian at Brown University in Rhode Island, and as a dean of library services at Washington University in St. Louis. He became a tenured professor at Wayne State University in Detroit, Michigan, in 1987. Churchwell was the dean of the School of Library and Information Studies for Clark Atlanta University, before retiring in 1999.

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February 04, 2021

Videographer, Scott Stearns.

Larry Crowe, interviewer.