The HistoryMakers video oral history with Jill Nelson.

Format Video (Streaming)
PublicationChicago, Illinois : The HistoryMakers, [2016].
Description1 online resource (6 video files (2 hr., 25 min., 1 sec.)) : sound, color.
Supplemental Contenthttps://go.openathens.net/redirector/ecu.edu?url=https://da.thehistorymakers.org/storiesForBio;ID=A2016.085
Subjects

Other author/creatorNelson, Jill, 1952- interviewee.
Other author/creatorCole, Harriette, interviewer.
Other author/creatorStearns, Scott, director of photography.
Other author/creatorHistoryMakers (Video oral history collection), production company.
Variant title History Makers video oral history with Jill Nelson
Portion of title Jill Nelson
Abstract Journalist and author Jill Nelson was born on June 14, 1952 in Harlem, New York. She graduated with her B.A. degree from City College of New York in 1977 and received her M.S. degree from Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism in 1980. In 1986, Nelson was hired by the Washington Post, but left in 1990 to pursue freelance writing. She contributed to numerous publications, including The New York Times, Essence, Chicago Tribune, and USA Today. She wrote the screenplay for PBS-TV's "Mandella" in 1985. Nelson was a professor of journalism at the City College of New York. Nelson authored five books, including the best-selling memoir and winner of the American Book Award, Volunteer Slavery: My Authentic Negro Experience, as well as Straight, No Chaser: How I Became A Grown-Up Black Woman; Finding Martha's Vineyard: African Americans at Home on an Island, and the novels Sexual Healing and Let's Get It On.
CreditsVideographer, Scott Stearns.
Performer Harriette Cole, interviewer.
Date/time/place of a event noteRecorded New York, New York 2016 November 11.
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 numberA2016.085 HistoryMakers

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