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| Varying Form of Title: | History Makers video oral history with Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham
Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham
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| Other authors / contributors: | Higginbotham, Evelyn Brooks, 1945- 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 Boston, Massachusetts 2013 April 25.
Vendor-supplied metadata.
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| Summary: | Historian Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham was born in Washington, D.C. in 1945. Higginbotham received her B.A. degree in history from the University of Wisconsin in 1969 and her M.A. degree in history from Howard University in 1974. She earned her Ph.D. degree in history from the University of Rochester in 1984. Higginbotham was hired at Harvard University in 1993 as a professor of Afro-American Studies and African American Religious History. In 1998, Higginbotham was named Victor S. Thomas Professor of History and African American Studies. In 2006, she was appointed as chair of the African American Studies department. Higginbotham authored Righteous Discontent: The Women's Movement in the Black Baptist Church: 1880-1920 (1993) and updated the late John Hope Franklin's African American history survey From Slavery to Freedom: A History of African Americans (2010). She also co-edited, with Henry Louis Gates, Jr., the expanded, twelve-volume African American National Biography (2012).
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