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An interview with Joyce Jones
- Title
- An interview with Joyce Jones / Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture ; interviewed by Jean Blackwell Hutson.
- Author
- Jones, Joyce Stokes
- Publication
- New York : Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, 1985.
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| Status | Vol/Date | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person. | Disc 1 | Moving image | By appointment only | Sc Visual DVD-1322 Disc 1 | Schomburg Center - Moving Image & Recorded Sound |
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person. | Disc 2 | Moving image | By appointment only | Sc Visual DVD-1322 Disc 2 | Schomburg Center - Moving Image & Recorded Sound |
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person. | Moving image | Use in library | Sc Visual VRA-67 | Schomburg Center - Moving Image & Recorded Sound |
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- Description
- 2 videodiscs (96 min.) : sound, color; 4 3/4 in.
- Summary
- Joyce Jones discusses her genealogical research of her family connection with Harriet Tubman. By way of introduction, Jean Hutson talks with Margerie Johnson, a teacher and librarian, about how she met Joyce Jones; Joyce Jones: knowledge that Tubman was an ancestor, stories from parents; why she began to research Tubman; family history; copies of documents that establish link between Tubman and her relatives; how Tubman raised money for her old age home; house where Tubman lived; family documents; research work in Washington, D.C.; Maryland slave owners and connection with Tubman; murder of Tubman's 1st husband; why Tubman especially wanted to help slave children escape; cruelty inflicted on Tubman by owner; meeting descendant of Tubman's owner; interviewing relatives; commemorative stamp; stamp; William Still; family documents; tributes to Tubman; work during Civil War; close up of documents discussed during interview.
- Donor/Sponsor
- Schomburg NEH Automated Access to Special Collections Project.
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Nonfiction films.
- Interviews.
- Oral histories.
- Credits (note)
- Interviewer, Jean Blackwell Hutson.
- Terms of Use (note)
- Copyright by New York Public Library, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. Permission required to cite, quote and reproduce. Contact repository for information.
- Biography (note)
- Joyce Jones is the great-great-grand niece of Harriet Tubman.
- Call Number
- Sc Visual DVD-1322
- OCLC
- 936187501
- Author
- Jones, Joyce Stokes, interviewee.
- Title
- An interview with Joyce Jones / Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture ; interviewed by Jean Blackwell Hutson.
- Publisher
- New York : Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, 1985.
- Country of Producing Entity
- United States.
- Type of Content
- two-dimensional moving image
- Type of Medium
- video
- Type of Carrier
- videodisc
- Digital File Characteristics
- video file DVD
- Credits
- Interviewer, Jean Blackwell Hutson.
- Event
- Recorded May 22, 1985. Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, New York.
- Terms Of Use
- Copyright by New York Public Library, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. Permission required to cite, quote and reproduce. Contact repository for information.
- Biography
- Joyce Jones is the great-great-grand niece of Harriet Tubman.
- Connect to:
- Added Author
- Hutson, Jean Blackwell, 1914-1998, interviwer.Johnson, Margerie, interviewee.Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture.
- Research Call Number
- Sc Visual DVD-1322Sc Visual VRA-67 Service copy.Sc Visual VRB-1544-1545 Original of: Sc Visual VRA-67.