The HistoryMakers video oral history with Naomi Long Madgett.
| Format | Video (Streaming) |
| Publication | Chicago, Illinois : The HistoryMakers, [2016]. |
| Description | 1 online resource (12 video files (5 hr., 29 min., 45 sec.)) : sound, color. |
| Supplemental Content | https://go.openathens.net/redirector/ecu.edu?url=https://da.thehistorymakers.org/storiesForBio;ID=A2007.072 |
| Subjects |
| Other author/creator | Madgett, Naomi Cornelia Long interviewee. |
| Other author/creator | Crowe, Larry F., interviewer. |
| Other author/creator | Gines, Denise, interviewer. |
| Other author/creator | Hickey, Matthew, director of photography. |
| Other author/creator | Stearns, Scott, director of photography. |
| Other author/creator | HistoryMakers (Video oral history collection), production company. |
| Variant title | History Makers video oral history with Naomi Long Madgett |
| Portion of title | Naomi Long Madgett |
| Abstract | Poet Naomi Cornelia Long Madgett was born on July 5, 1923 in Norfolk, Virginia and grew up in East Orange, New Jersey. In 1937, she moved to St. Louis, Missouri where she published Songs to a Phantom Nightingale in 1941 after graduation from Sumner High School. Madgett received her B.A. degree from Virginia State University in 1945. Moving to Detroit, she earned her M.Ed. from Wayne State University in 1955 and her Ph.D. degree from Greenwich University in 1980. In 1968, Madgett was included in Ten: Anthology of Detroit Poets and joined Eastern Michigan University where she wrote A Student's Guide to Creative Writing. Madgett's books include Octavia and Other Poems, and Star by Star. Forming Lotus Press in 1972, she published Pink Ladies in the Afternoon and edited Adam of Ife: Black Women in Praise of Black Men in 1992. Madgett was made Detroit's Poet Laureate by Mayor Dennis Archer. |
| Credits | Videographer, Matthew Hickey. |
| Credits | Videographer, Scott Stearns. |
| Performer | Larry Crowe, interviewer. |
| Performer | Denise Gines, interviewer. |
| Date/time/place of a event note | Recorded Detroit, Michigan 2007 March 5. |
| Date/time/place of a event note | Recorded Detroit, Michigan 2007 June 27. |
| Source of description | Vendor-supplied metadata. |
| Genre/form | Internet videos. |
| Genre/form | Interviews. |
| Genre/form | Nonfiction films. |
| Genre/form | Oral histories. |
| Genre/form | Oral histories. |
| Genre/form | Internet videos. |
| Genre/form | Nonfiction films. |
| Stock number | A2007.072 HistoryMakers |