The HistoryMakers video oral history with Lewis Myers.

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Imprint:Chicago, Illinois : The HistoryMakers, [2016]
Description:1 online resource (6 video files (2 hr., 37 min., 26 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/11318313
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Varying Form of Title:History Makers video oral history with Lewis Myers
Lewis Myers
Other authors / contributors:Myers, Lou, 1935-2013, interviewee.
Crowe, Larry F., interviewer.
Burghelea, Neculai, director of photography.
HistoryMakers (Video oral history collection), production company.
Sound characteristics:digital
Digital file characteristics:video file
Notes:Videographer, Neculai Burghelea.
Larry Crowe, interviewer.
Recorded New York, New York 2007 April 19.
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Summary:Actor Lou Leabengula Myers was born on September 26, 1935 in Laing, West Virginia. Myers earned his B.A. degree in sociology from West Virginia State University. In 1968, he was cast in the Negro Ensemble Company's The Blacks: A Clown Show and was understudy to Lou Gossett, Jr. In 1976, Myers was cast in The First Breeze of Summer, and in the 1980s, he was featured in many of August Wilson's plays, including Ma Rainey's Black Bottom, Fences and The Piano Lesson. Myers gained notoriety for his role as "Mr. Gaines" in the Cosby Show spinoff, A Different World from 1988 to 1993. Among his movie credits are: How Stella Got Her Groove Back (1998), The Fighting Temptations (2003), and Lackawanna Blues (2005). Myers won an NAACP Image Award for his role as the stool pigeon in August Wilson's play, King Hedley II. Myers passed away on February 20, 2013 at age 77.

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