| Title: |
Reminiscences of Wilbert Tatum
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| RLIN number: |
NXCP90-A4
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| Document type: |
Oral history
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| Accessibility: |
Free Only
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| Repository: |
Columbia University. Oral History Research Office
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| Collection: |
Individual Interview List Oral History Project
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| Description: |
Early childhood and family life in North Carolina; sense of family within the black community; issue of black women raising white children; trip to New York, NY to receive high school journalism award from Columbia University, 1950; higher formal education at Lincoln and Yale Universities; rejection of religion; difficulties while establishing himself in New York City; participation in civil rights movement; work to improve city housing; purchase of Amsterdam News and its function within the black community; Amsterdam News worker's strike; impressions of Edward I. Koch.
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| Extent: |
Transcript: 80 leaves, Transcript: 3 cassettes
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| Restrictions: |
Access: Open. Copyright by The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New york, 1987. Permission required to cite, quote, or reproduce. Contact repository for information.
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| Original Language: |
English
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| Time span: |
Not indicated ... to 1987 (Year of interview)
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| Speaker: |
Tatum, Wilbert
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| Speaker gender: |
Male
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| Speaker occupation: |
Newspaper publisher
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| Document date: |
1987
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| Interviewer: |
Bundy, Kissette
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| Locations discussed: |
New York; New York, NY; North America; United States
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| Topics discussed - ASP terms: |
African American journalists; African American newspapers; African Americans--Social conditions; Civil rights; Journalism; Journalists; New York; New York (N.Y.)--Politics and government; New York, NY; North America; Oral history; United States
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| Topics discussed - Other terms: |
Amsterdam News (newspaper); Tatum, Wilbert
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| ASP release: |
2005-06
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| Document code: |
OHI0021167-16606
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