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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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Disc 1Moving imageBy appointment only Sc Visual DVD-1322 Disc 1Schomburg Center - Moving Image & Recorded Sound
Disc 2Moving imageBy appointment only Sc Visual DVD-1322 Disc 2Schomburg Center - Moving Image & Recorded Sound
Moving imageUse in library Sc Visual VRA-67 Schomburg Center - Moving Image & Recorded Sound

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Additional Authors
  • Hutson, Jean Blackwell, 1914-1998
  • Johnson, Margerie
  • Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture.
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.
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Added Author
Hutson, Jean Blackwell, 1914-1998, interviwer.
Johnson, Margerie, interviewee.
Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture.
Research Call Number
Sc Visual DVD-1322
Sc Visual VRA-67 Service copy.
Sc Visual VRB-1544-1545 Original of: Sc Visual VRA-67.
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