Hidden Bibliographic Details
| Varying Form of Title: | History Makers video oral history with Yosef ben-Jochannan
Yosef ben-Jochannan
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| Other authors / contributors: | Ben-Jochannan, Yosef, interviewee.
Gines, Denise, interviewer.
Burghelea, Neculai, director of photography.
HistoryMakers (Video oral history collection), production company.
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| Sound characteristics: | digital
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| Digital file characteristics: | video file
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| Notes: | Videographer, Neculai Burghelea.
Denise Gines, interviewer.
Recorded New York, New York 2006 November 5.
Vendor-supplied metadata.
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| Summary: | Africana studies professor Yosef Alfredo Antonio Ben-Jochannan was born on December 31, 1918. Ben-Jochannan attended the Christian Stead School in St. Croix, United States Virgin Islands. After graduation from high school in 1934, ben-Jochannan received a B.S. degree in civil engineering from the University of Puerto Rico in 1938; and his M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in anthropology from the University of Havana. In 1947, he began leading educational tours to Egypt that would span decades. Ben-Jochannan became an adjunct professor at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York in 1976 and stayed in that position for eleven years. Ben-Jochannan published over forty-nine books and papers including We the Black Jews, Black Man of the Nile and His Family, and Africa: Mother of Western Civilizations. Ben-Jochannan worked closely with such Africana studies scholars as John Henrik Clarke, Edward Scobie, and Leonard Jeffries. Ben-Jochannan passed away on March 19, 2015 at the age of ninety-six.
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