The HistoryMakers video oral history with Jacob H. Carruthers, Jr.

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Imprint:Chicago, Illinois : The HistoryMakers, [2016]
Description:1 online resource (8 video files (3 hr., 42 min., 12 sec.)) : sound, color.
Language:English
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Format: E-Resource Video Streaming Video
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11317824
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Varying Form of Title:History Makers video oral history with Jacob H. Carruthers, Jr.
Jacob H. Carruthers, Jr.
Other authors / contributors:Carruthers, Jacob H., 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 Chicago, Illinois 2002 May 13.
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Summary:Professor Jacob Carruthers was born on February 15, 1930, in Dallas, Texas. He received his B.A. degree from Samuel Houston College in 1950; his M.A. degree from Texas Southern University in 1958; and, his Ph.D. degree in political studies from the University of Colorado in 1966. In 1968, Carruthers became a professor in the Center for Inner City Studies at Northeastern Illinois University. He remodeled the program's curricula with a focus on pan-Africanism. He earned respect as one of the world's leading experts on Egyptology and classical African civilizations. He conducted study tours to many African nations, including Egypt, Ethiopia, Zimbabwe, and Senegal. Carruthers wrote and edited hundreds of articles, scholarly texts and books. He served as the founder of the Kemetic Institute in 1978, and was founding president to the Association for the Study of Classical African Civilizations in 1984. Carruthers passed away on January 5, 2004 at age 74.