The HistoryMakers video oral history with Archie C. Epps, III.

The HistoryMakers video oral history with Archie C. Epps, III.

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Imprint:Chicago, Illinois : The HistoryMakers, [2016]
Description:1 online resource (4 video files (1 hr., 52 min., 20 sec.)) : sound, color.
Language:English
Subject:
Epps, Archie C. -- Interviews.
Epps, Archie C.
African Americans -- Interviews.
African Americans.
Internet videos.
Interviews.
Nonfiction films.
Oral histories.
Oral histories.
Internet videos.
Nonfiction films.
Format: E-Resource Video Streaming Video
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11312960
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Varying Form of Title:History Makers video oral history with Archie C. Epps, III
Archie C. Epps, III
Other authors / contributors:Epps, Archie C., interviewee.
Crowe, Larry F., 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.
Larry Crowe, interviewer.
Recorded Belmont, Massachusetts 2003 April 14.
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Summary:Academic administrator Archie C. Epps III was born on May 19, 1937, in Lake Charles, Louisiana. He graduated from Talladega College, and then entered Harvard Divinity School, where he graduated in 1961. Upon graduation, Epps became a teaching assistant. Politically active, he invited Malcolm X and Ralph Ellison to speak at Harvard, and in 1963, marched on Washington. In 1964, Epps was named assistant dean of students and six years later became dean, the first African-American administrator at Harvard. He remained in the post for thirty-one years. He also taught in Harvard's Center for Middle Eastern Studies as a specialist in Islam. A longtime member of Christ Church in Cambridge, Epps was active with a number of other organizations. He served as a trustee of the Boston Symphony Orchestra for twenty years and was an overseer of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston. Archie Epps died August 21, 2003 at age 66.

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