The HistoryMakers video oral history with Naomi Long Madgett.

Format Video (Streaming)
PublicationChicago, Illinois : The HistoryMakers, [2016].
Description1 online resource (12 video files (5 hr., 29 min., 45 sec.)) : sound, color.
Supplemental Contenthttps://go.openathens.net/redirector/ecu.edu?url=https://da.thehistorymakers.org/storiesForBio;ID=A2007.072
Subjects

Other author/creatorMadgett, Naomi Cornelia Long interviewee.
Other author/creatorCrowe, Larry F., interviewer.
Other author/creatorGines, Denise, interviewer.
Other author/creatorHickey, Matthew, director of photography.
Other author/creatorStearns, Scott, director of photography.
Other author/creatorHistoryMakers (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.
CreditsVideographer, Matthew Hickey.
CreditsVideographer, Scott Stearns.
Performer Larry Crowe, interviewer.
Performer Denise Gines, interviewer.
Date/time/place of a event noteRecorded Detroit, Michigan 2007 March 5.
Date/time/place of a event noteRecorded Detroit, Michigan 2007 June 27.
Source of descriptionVendor-supplied metadata.
Genre/formInternet videos.
Genre/formInterviews.
Genre/formNonfiction films.
Genre/formOral histories.
Genre/formOral histories.
Genre/formInternet videos.
Genre/formNonfiction films.
Stock numberA2007.072 HistoryMakers