The HistoryMakers video oral history with The Honorable Michael A. Battle.

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Imprint:Chicago, Illinois : The HistoryMakers, [2016]
Description:1 online resource (5 video files (2 hr., 15 min., 15 sec.)) : sound, color.
Language:English
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Format: E-Resource Video Streaming Video
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11312445
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Varying Form of Title:History Makers video oral history with The Honorable Michael A. Battle
The Honorable Michael A. Battle
Other authors / contributors:Battle, Michael A., interviewee.
Merriday, Jodi, interviewer.
Stearns, Scott, director of photography.
HistoryMakers (Video oral history collection), production company.
Sound characteristics:digital
Digital file characteristics:video file
Notes:Videographer, Scott Stearns.
Jodi Merriday, interviewer.
Recorded Atlanta, Georgia 2004 March 22.
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Summary:College president and theologian the Honorable Michael A. Battle was born on July 28, 1950 in St. Louis, Missouri. He earned his B.A. degree from Trinity College, his M.Div. degree from Duke University and his D.Min. degree from Howard University. Beginning his career in 1976, Battle served as the dean of the University Chapel at Hampton University, pastor to the Hampton University Memorial Church and executive secretary and treasurer of the Hampton University Minister's Conference, vice president of student affairs at Chicago State University and associate vice president of student affairs at Virginia State University. He served as vice president of the American Committee on Africa from 1994 to 1998. In 1998, he was hired as the seventh president of the Interdenominational Theological Center. Battle also served as a U.S. Army Reserve chaplain. He is the author of numerous books and publications about ecumenism and the black church.