- Additional Authors
- Description
- 1 online resource (6 video files (2 hr., 59 min., 2 sec.)) : sound, color.
- Summary
- Poet and youth worker Useni Eugene Perkins was born in Chicago on September 12, 1932 to sculptor Marion Perkins. His early exposure to the arts led to an interest in writing. Perkins earned his B.S. from George Williams College in 1963 and went on to work at the Henry Horner Chicago Boys Club. After earning his M.S. in 1966, Perkins ran the Better Boys Foundation of Chicago, working with community and educational development for troubled youth. Perkins later worked as a consultant and began writing poetry and plays. He became social director for the Chicago Urban League in 1986. In 1988, he moved to Oregon to become CEO of the Urban League of Portland. He returned to Chicago in 1990 as interim president of the DuSable Museum of African American History. Perkins established the Association for the Positive Development of African American Youth and became project director at Chicago State University's Family Life Center.
- Alternative Title
- History Makers video oral history with Useni Eugene Perkins
- Useni Eugene Perkins
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Internet videos.
- Interviews.
- Nonfiction films.
- Oral histories.
- Credits (note)
- Videographer, Scott Stearns.
- OCLC
- 998757068
- Title
The HistoryMakers video oral history with Useni Eugene Perkins.
- Publisher
Chicago, Illinois : The HistoryMakers, [2016]
- Country of Producing Entity
United States. naf
- Playing Time
025902
- 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, Scott Stearns.
- Event
Recorded Chicago, Illinois 2003 March 10.
- Source of description
Vendor-supplied metadata.
- Connect to:
- Indexed Term
Poet Foundation Chief Executive.
- Added Author
Perkins, Useni Eugene, interviewee.
Crowe, Larry F., interviewer.
Stearns, Scott, director of photography.
HistoryMakers (Video oral history collection), production company.