Hidden Bibliographic Details
Varying Form of Title: | History Makers video oral history with Reverend Charles Richard Stith Reverend Charles Richard Stith
|
Other authors / contributors: | Stith, Charles R., interviewee.
Hayden, Robert C., interviewer.
Hickey, Matthew, director of photography.
HistoryMakers (Video oral history collection), production company.
|
Sound characteristics: | digital
|
Digital file characteristics: | video file
|
Notes: | Videographer, Matthew Hickey. Robert Hayden, interviewer. Recorded Boston, Massachusetts 2005 March 23. Vendor-supplied metadata.
|
Summary: | Archivist and nonprofit executive Reverend Charles R. Stith was born in St. Louis, Missouri, on August 26, 1949. Educated in St. Louis, he graduated from Charles Sumner High School in 1966 and Baker University in Baldwin, Kansas in 1973. He also held his M.Div. degree from the Interdenominational Theological Center in Atlanta, Georgia and a M.S. degree in theology from Harvard University Divinity School. He founded and served as the director of the African Presidential Archives and Research Center at Boston University. In 1979, Stith became the youngest ever senior minister at Union United Methodist Church in Boston. He later founded the Organization for the New Equality. Stith served as former United States Ambassador to the Republic of Tanzania and later was appointed by President Clinton to serve as ambassador to Tanzania. He directed Boston University's African Presidential Center.
|