The HistoryMakers video oral history with Sandra Fortune-Green.

The HistoryMakers video oral history with Sandra Fortune-Green.

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Bibliographic Details
Imprint:	Chicago, Illinois : The HistoryMakers, [2016]
Description:	1 online resource (7 video files (3 hr., 24 min., 38 sec.)) : sound, color.
Language:	English
Subject:	Fortune, Sandra -- (Fortune-Green) -- Interviews. African Americans -- Interviews. African Americans. Internet videos. Interviews. Nonfiction films. Oral histories. Oral histories. Internet videos. Nonfiction films.
Format:	E-Resource Video Streaming Video
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11336949

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Varying Form of Title:	History Makers video oral history with Sandra Fortune-Green Sandra Fortune-Green
Other authors / contributors:	Fortune, Sandra (Fortune-Green), interviewee. Butler, Cheryl B. (Cheryl Blanche), 1967- 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. Cheryl Butler, interviewer. Recorded Washington, District of Columbia 2007 September 23. Vendor-supplied metadata.
Summary:	Dancer Sandra Fortune-Green was born on March 2, 1951, in Washington, D.C. Fortune-Green began dancing at age ten, enrolling in the renowned Jones-Haywood School of Dance under the instruction of Doris Jones and Claire Haywood. After Fortune-Green graduated from Theodore Roosevelt High School in 1968, she pursued her dance studies in New York at the School of American Ballet, The American Ballet Theatre and the Joffrey Ballet. She then returned to Washington, D.C. to attend Howard University. In 1973, Fortune-Green entered the prestigious Second International Ballet Competition as the only African American to ever compete. In 1994, Fortune-Green was invited to join the faculty in Howard University's dance department. She also served on the dance faculty at the Duke Ellington School of Arts, a position she has held for over thirty years. In 2006, Fortune-Green became the artistic director of the Jones-Haywood School of Dance.

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Physical Description:	1 online resource (7 video files (3 hr., 24 min., 38 sec.)) : sound, color. 032438
Playing Time:	03:24:38
Production Credits:	Videographer, Matthew Hickey.