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| Varying Form of Title: | History Makers video oral history with A. Grace Lee Mims
A. Grace Lee Mims
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| Other authors / contributors: | Mims, A. Grace Lee, 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 East Cleveland, Ohio 2014 February 14.
Vendor-supplied metadata.
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| Summary: | Radio host and vocalist A. Grace Lee Mims was born on July 17, 1930 in Snow Hill, Alabama. Mims graduated from Snow Hill Institute and went on to attend and graduate from Hampton University. She later received her M.L.S degree from Case Western Reserve University. Upon graduation, she was hired as a librarian in Detroit, Michigan before moving to Cleveland where she worked at the Cleveland Public Library and Glenville High School. In 1976, she created and became hostess of The Black Arts on WCLV-FM. From 1980 to 2010, Mims produced and hosted WCLV's Artslog. She worked as a vocalist with numerous musical groups, including The William Appling Singers and The Cleveland Orchestra Chorus. Mims recorded two albums: Spirituals, a solo record, and A Spirit Speaks with her family's jazz-folk ensemble, The Descendants of Mike and Phoebe. She was also a voice teacher at the Cleveland Music School Settlement beginning in 1980.
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