- Additional Authors
- Description
- 1 online resource (5 video files (2 hr., 23 min., 9 sec.)) : sound, color.
- Summary
- African diaspora historian and curator Charles L. Blockson was born on December 16, 1933, in Norristown, Pennsylvania. Blockson has amassed one of the world's largest private collections of African American history. Blockson graduated from Pennsylvania State University in 1956, where he was a talented football player and NFL prospect. He taught local and multicultural history and traveled extensively around the world, acquiring more than 150,000 rare African, African American and African Caribbean publications and more than 500,000 rare photographs. In 1984, Blockson donated these items to Temple University, and served as curator of the Charles L. Blockson Afro-American Collection. Blockson worked as director of the Pennsylvania Black History Committee, director of the Pennsylvania Afro-American History Board and governor's commissioner of the Governor's Heritage Program. He was the recipient of a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Before Columbus Foundation, as well as multiple honorary doctorates, and has been a leading expert on the Underground Railroad.
- Alternative Title
- History Makers video oral history with Charles Blockson
- Charles Blockson
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Internet videos.
- Interviews.
- Nonfiction films.
- Oral histories.
- Credits (note)
- Videographer, Paul Bieschke.
- OCLC
- 994208735
- Title
The HistoryMakers video oral history with Charles Blockson.
- Publisher
Chicago, Illinois : The HistoryMakers, [2016]
- Country of Producing Entity
United States. naf
- Playing Time
022309
- Type of Content
two-dimensional moving image
- Type of Medium
computer
- Type of Carrier
online resource
- Digital File Characteristics
video file
- Performer
Larry Crowe, interviewer.
- Credits
Videographer, Paul Bieschke.
- Event
Recorded Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 2002 September 5.
- Source of description
Vendor-supplied metadata.
- Connect to:
- Indexed Term
African Diaspora Historian Curator.
- Added Author
Blockson, Charles L., interviewee.
Crowe, Larry F., interviewer.
Bieschke, Paul, director of photography.
HistoryMakers (Video oral history collection), production company.