Hidden Bibliographic Details
Varying Form of Title: | History Makers video oral history with Eugenia Collier Eugenia Collier
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Other authors / contributors: | Collier, Eugenia W., interviewee.
Crowe, Larry F., interviewer.
Hickey, Matthew, 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, Matthew Hickey. Larry Crowe, interviewer. Recorded Catonsville, Maryland 2013 August 7. Recorded Catonsville, Maryland 2014 May 20. Vendor-supplied metadata.
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Summary: | Author and professor Eugenia Collier was born April 6, 1928, in Baltimore, Maryland. She received her B.A. degree from Howard University in 1948; her M.A. degree from Columbia University in 1950; and, her Ph. D. degree from the University of Maryland in 1976. Her dissertation, "Steps Toward a Black Aesthetic: A Study of Black American Literary Criticism," was published by the University of Maryland. From 1950 to 1955, Collier was a caseworker with the Baltimore Department of Public Welfare. From 1956 to 1996, She a professor of English at several colleges and universities including the University of Maryland-Baltimore; Coppin State College and Howard University. She retired from teaching in 1996. Collier also wrote short stories, essays and books. She won several writing awards, including the Gwendolyn Brooks Prize for Fiction award in Negro Digest in 1969 for her short story, "Marigolds." Collier also received the Outstanding Educators of America Award in 1972.
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