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The HistoryMakers video oral history with A. Grace Lee Mims
Title
The HistoryMakers video oral history with A. Grace Lee Mims.
Publication
Chicago, Illinois : The HistoryMakers, [2016]
Physical Description
1 online resource (5 video files (2 hr., 30 min., 9 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
Radio host and vocalist A. Grace Lee Mims was born on July 17, 1930 in Snow Hill, Alabama. Mims graduated from Snow Hill Institute and went on to attend and graduate from Hampton University. She later received her M.L.S degree from Case Western Reserve University. Upon graduation, she was hired as a librarian in Detroit, Michigan before moving to Cleveland where she worked at the Cleveland Public Library and Glenville High School. In 1976, she created and became hostess of The Black Arts on WCLV-FM. From 1980 to 2010, Mims produced and hosted WCLV's Artslog. She worked as a vocalist with numerous musical groups, including The William Appling Singers and The Cleveland Orchestra Chorus. Mims recorded two albums: Spirituals, a solo record, and A Spirit Speaks with her family's jazz-folk ensemble, The Descendants of Mike and Phoebe. She was also a voice teacher at the Cleveland Music School Settlement beginning in 1980.
Variant and related titles
History Makers video oral history with A. Grace Lee Mims
A. Grace Lee Mims
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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