The HistoryMakers video oral history with Rachel Swarns.

Format Video (Streaming)
PublicationChicago, Illinois : The HistoryMakers, [2016].
Description1 online resource (7 video files (3 hr., 22 min., 14 sec.)) : sound, color.
Supplemental Contenthttps://go.openathens.net/redirector/ecu.edu?url=https://da.thehistorymakers.org/storiesForBio;ID=A2014.038
Subjects

Other author/creatorSwarns, Rachel L., interviewee.
Other author/creatorRichardson, Julieanna L., 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 Rachel Swarns
Portion of title Rachel Swarns
Abstract Newspaper reporter and author Rachel L. Swarns was born in 1967 in Queens, New York. Swarns attended Howard University in Washington, D.C., and received her B.A. degree in Spanish and African and Caribbean Studies. She went on to receive her M.A. degree in international relations from the University of Kent in Canterbury, England. Upon graduation, Swarns was hired as a newspaper reporter for the St. Petersburg Times from 1987 to 1991, and then as a general assignment reporter at the Miami Herald. In 1995, Swarns joined The New York Times as a correspondent. From 1999 to 2003, she served as the Johannesburg bureau chief. Swarns was later assigned as a metro columnist for The New York Times, where she wrote the weekly column The Working Life which focused on labor and the economy. In 2012, Swarns authored American Tapestry: The Story of the Black, White and Multiracial Ancestors of Michelle Obama.
CreditsVideographer, Scott Stearns.
Performer Julieanna L. Richardson, interviewer.
Date/time/place of a event noteRecorded New York, New York 2014 January 15.
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 numberA2014.038 HistoryMakers

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