The HistoryMakers video oral history with Leon DeCosta Dash.
| Format | Video (Streaming) |
| Publication | Chicago, Illinois : The HistoryMakers, [2016]. |
| Description | 1 online resource (18 video files (8 hr., 44 min., 12 sec.)) : sound, color. |
| Supplemental Content | https://go.openathens.net/redirector/ecu.edu?url=https://da.thehistorymakers.org/storiesForBio;ID=A2008.081 |
| Subjects |
| Other author/creator | Dash, Leon, interviewee. |
| Other author/creator | Crowe, Larry F., interviewer. |
| Other author/creator | Hickey, Matthew, director of photography. |
| Other author/creator | HistoryMakers (Video oral history collection), production company. |
| Variant title | History Makers video oral history with Leon DeCosta Dash |
| Portion of title | Leon DeCosta Dash |
| Abstract | Journalist Leon DeCosta Dash was born on March 16, 1944 in New Bedford, Massachusetts, and grew up in New York City. Dash earned his B. A. degree in history from Howard University in 1968. He was a Peace Corps teacher from 1968-70.Dash began his career in journalism at The Washington Post in 1972. He co-authored The Shame of the Prisons and served as the Post's bureau chief of West Africa from 1979 until 1984. He joined the investigative desk. In 1989, Dash wrote When Children Want Children, exploring teenage pregnancy, which won several awards. In 1995, Dash and photographer Lucian Perkins won the Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Journalism for Rosa's Story, a report of a District of Columbia woman's struggle with poverty, crime and drug use. Dash also received an Emmy Award for a documentary based on the article. In 1998, Dash accepted a professorship at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. |
| Credits | Videographer, Matthew Hickey. |
| Performer | Larry Crowe, interviewer. |
| Date/time/place of a event note | Recorded Chicago, Illinois 2008 July 13. |
| 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 | A2008.081 HistoryMakers |