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| Varying Form of Title: | History Makers video oral history with Vivian D. Hewitt
Vivian D. Hewitt
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| Other authors / contributors: | Hewitt, Vivian D., interviewee.
Crowe, Larry F., interviewer.
Hickey, Matthew, 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, Matthew Hickey.
Larry Crowe, interviewer.
Recorded New York, New York 2003 June 18.
Vendor-supplied metadata.
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| Summary: | Librarian and art collector Vivian Hewitt was born on February 17, 1920 in New Castle, Pennsylvania. Hewitt earned her B.S. degree from Carnegie-Mellon University in 1944 and began working as a librarian. By 1949, she was a librarian and instructor at Atlanta University. In 1956, she joined the Rockefeller Foundation. The Carnegie Endowment for International Peace hired Hewitt to be chief librarian in 1963, and she remained there until she retired in 1983. Hewitt and her husband, John, were avid art collectors, buying works wherever they traveled. After collecting Haitian works for fifteen years, they decided to focus on African American art and assembled a significant African American collection. The collection was bought by Bank of America and then gifted to the Afro-American Cultural Center in North Carolina. Hewitt remained active with her church and other organizations, and received numerous awards from various library associations including the Black Caucus of the American Library Association.
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