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| Varying Form of Title: | History Makers video oral history with Reverend Eugene Rivers
Reverend Eugene Rivers
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| Other authors / contributors: | Rivers, Eugene, interviewee.
Crowe, Larry F., 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.
Larry Crowe, interviewer.
Recorded Dorchester, Massachusetts 2007 February 12.
Recorded Dorchester, Massachusetts 2007 February 13.
Vendor-supplied metadata.
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| Summary: | Nonprofit chief executive and youth activist Reverend Eugene Franklin Rivers, III was born on April 9, 1950 in Boston, Massachusetts. Graduating from Philadelphia's Dobbins Vocational High School in 1968, he studied painting at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts. After attending Yale University in 1973, he enrolled in Harvard University in 1976. Rivers founded Azusa Christian Community in 1984 in Boston's Dorchester neighborhood, working to build grassroots leadership in one of America's worst inner city neighborhoods. President of the National Ten Point Leadership Foundation and the Ella J. Baker House, Rivers worked on issues of urban violence impacting African Americans. He authored Black Churches and the Challenge of U.S. Foreign and Development Policy (2001), An Open Letter to the U.S. Black Religious, Intellectual, and Political Leadership Regarding AIDS and the Sexual Holocaust in Africa (1999), and A Pastoral Letter to President George W. Bush on Bridging our Racial Divide (2001).
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