Hidden Bibliographic Details
| Varying Form of Title: | History Makers video oral history with David Levering Lewis
David Levering Lewis
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| Other authors / contributors: | Lewis, David Levering, 1936- interviewee.
Crowe, Larry F., interviewer.
Stearns, Scott, director of photography.
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, Scott Stearns.
Videographer, Neculai Burghelea.
Larry Crowe, interviewer.
Recorded New York, New York 2005 March 10.
Recorded New York, New York 2005 June 9.
Recorded New York, New York 2007 April 17.
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| Summary: | Historian and professor David Levering Lewis was born on May 25, 1936 in Little Rock, Arkansas. Attending schools in Arkansas, Ohio and Georgia, Lewis graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Fisk University in Nashville, Tennessee in 1956. Lewis received his M.A. degree in history from Columbia University in 1959. Earning his Ph.D. degree from the London School of Economics and Political Science in 1962, Lewis taught at a number of schools including Howard and Harvard Universities. Joining Rutgers University in 1985, he became the Martin Luther King, Jr., Professor of History. In 2003, Lewis was appointed Julius Silver Professor at New York University. Lewis authored several books and won two Pulitzer Prizes for his biographies of W.E.B. DuBois. He was also awarded the Bancroft Prize and the Francis Parkman Prize in 1994. A former president of the Society of American Historians, Lewis sat on the board of the NAACP's The Crisis magazine.
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