The HistoryMakers video oral history with Micki Grant.

Format Video (Streaming)
PublicationChicago, Illinois : The HistoryMakers, [2016].
Description1 online resource (9 video files (4 hr., 30 min., 41 sec.)) : sound, color.
Supplemental Contenthttps://go.openathens.net/redirector/ecu.edu?url=https://da.thehistorymakers.org/storiesForBio;ID=A2006.095
Subjects

Other author/creatorGrant, Micki, interviewee.
Other author/creatorWilson, Shawn, interviewer.
Other author/creatorBurghelea, Neculai, director of photography.
Other author/creatorHistoryMakers (Video oral history collection), production company.
Variant title History Makers video oral history with Micki Grant
Portion of title Micki Grant
Abstract Songwriter and actress Micki Grant was born on June 30, 1941 in Chicago, Illinois. At age nine, she took drama classes from Susan Porché. She earned her B.A. degree in English and theatre at City University of New York's Lehman College, graduating summa cum laude. Her collaboration with director Vinnette Carroll resulted in nine musical productions, including Don't Bother Me, I Can't Cope and Your Arms Too Short to Box With God. She was one of the first African American women cast in the daytime series, Edge of Night. Grant received a Helen Hayes Award for her performance as Sadie Delany in a two-year tour of Having Our Say in 1996. In 1999, she received the National Black Theatre Festival's Living Legend Award. Grant won a Grammy Award for Best Score from an original cast album and was nominated five times for a Tony Award. She also received an NAACP Image Award.
CreditsVideographer, Neculai Burghelea.
Performer Shawn Wilson, interviewer.
Date/time/place of a event noteRecorded New York, New York 2006 June 21.
Date/time/place of a event noteRecorded New York, New York 2006 September 1.
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 numberA2006.095 HistoryMakers

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