The HistoryMakers video oral history with Herb Kent.

The HistoryMakers video oral history with Herb Kent.

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Bibliographic Details
Imprint:	Chicago, Illinois : The HistoryMakers, [2016]
Description:	1 online resource (8 video files (3 hr., 22 min., 48 sec.)) : sound, color.
Language:	English
Subject:	Kent, Herb -- Interviews. Kent, Herb. 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/11317752

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Varying Form of Title:	History Makers video oral history with Herb Kent Herb Kent
Other authors / contributors:	Kent, Herb, interviewee. Richardson, Julieanna L., interviewer. Bieschke, Paul, director of photography. HistoryMakers (Video oral history collection), production company.
Sound characteristics:	digital
Digital file characteristics:	video file
Notes:	Videographer, Paul Bieschke. Julieanna L. Richardson, interviewer. Recorded Chicago, Illinois 2000 February 15. Vendor-supplied metadata.
Summary:	Radio host Herb Kent was born on October 5, 1928 in Chicago, Illinois, and raised on Chicago's South Side. By age sixteen, Kent had already given an on-air performance on Chicago's WBEZ radio station with his theater workshop. For the next two decades, Kent hosted radio shows on several stations in Chicago. He was credited with helping to launch careers of such R&B artists as The Temptations, Minnie Ripperton, Curtis Mayfield, and Smokey Robinson. During the 1960s, Kent became a prominent civil rights activist. Kent's many recognitions included his 1995 induction into the Museum of Broadcast Communications Radio Hall of Fame. In 1996, Kent witnessed the dedication of a street on Chicago's South Side in his honor. He was also recognized with a U.S. postage stamp. The following year, Kent was named honorary mayor of Bronzeville by the citizens of the South side community. Kent passed away on October 23, 2016 at age 88.

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Physical Description:	1 online resource (8 video files (3 hr., 22 min., 48 sec.)) : sound, color. 032248
Playing Time:	03:22:48
Production Credits:	Videographer, Paul Bieschke.