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Additional authors

1. Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. Moving Image and Recorded Sound Division

Description

1. 88 videocassettes

Summary

1. The collection consists of 10 audio recordings and 88 moving image recordings reflecting her career as a filmmaker.

Subject

1. Shaw, Robert Gould, 1837-1863
2. Shearer, Jacqueline
3. United States. Army -- African American troops
4. United States. Army. Massachusetts Infantry Regiment, 54th (1863-1865)
5. African American women motion picture producers and directors
6. African American women screenwriters
7. African American women authors
8. Women cinematographers -- United States
9. Motion picture authorship
10. African American soldiers
11. African American women household employees
12. African Americans in the performing arts
13. Motion pictures -- United States
14. United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865

Genre/Form

1. Sound recordings.
2. Video recordings.

Call number

1. Sc MIRS Shearer 1994-54

Source (note)

1. Jackie Shearer Estate

Biography (note)

1. Jacqueline Anne Shearer (Nov. 30, 1946 - Nov. 26, 1993, Boston, MA) was an African-American independent producer and director of documentary films about African Americans; she was committed to using media as a tool for social change. Her completed work includes "A Minor Altercation" (1976), a dramatic film about the Boston school busing crisis was used to promote discussion of racism and desegregation. Shearer produced and directed, and wrote, along with Leslie Lee, "The Massachusetts Colored 54th Infantry" (1991) for the PBS series "The American Experience." This one-hour documentary emphasizes the role of Boston's free black abolitionist community in forming the first African-American Civil War regiment. In 1979 she began a decade-long endeavor to complete a feature film entitled "Addie and the Pink Carnations" depicting the social history of black women domestic workers during the Depression. Shearer also directed "The Incident Report" (1984), a dramatic training film exploring the issue of patient abuse in nursing homes. She produced, directed and wrote the multimedia video production "Going Up to Birmingham" (1992) for the permanent exhibition of the then newly opened Birmingham Civil Rights Institute in Alabama. This work focuses on Birmingham's early years and the racial divide that marked urban life.

Linking entry (note)

1. See the Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books Division for the Jackie Shearer papers, 1966-1993. (Sc MG 560).

Author

1. Shearer, Jacqueline, creator.

Title

1. Jackie Shearer audio and moving image collection.

Publisher

1. [1994]

Biography

1. Jacqueline Anne Shearer (Nov. 30, 1946 - Nov. 26, 1993, Boston, MA) was an African-American independent producer and director of documentary films about African Americans; she was committed to using media as a tool for social change. Her completed work includes "A Minor Altercation" (1976), a dramatic film about the Boston school busing crisis was used to promote discussion of racism and desegregation. Shearer produced and directed, and wrote, along with Leslie Lee, "The Massachusetts Colored 54th Infantry" (1991) for the PBS series "The American Experience." This one-hour documentary emphasizes the role of Boston's free black abolitionist community in forming the first African-American Civil War regiment. In 1979 she began a decade-long endeavor to complete a feature film entitled "Addie and the Pink Carnations" depicting the social history of black women domestic workers during the Depression. Shearer also directed "The Incident Report" (1984), a dramatic training film exploring the issue of patient abuse in nursing homes. She produced, directed and wrote the multimedia video production "Going Up to Birmingham" (1992) for the permanent exhibition of the then newly opened Birmingham Civil Rights Institute in Alabama. This work focuses on Birmingham's early years and the racial divide that marked urban life.

Linking entry

1. See the Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books Division for the Jackie Shearer papers, 1966-1993. (Sc MG 560).

Connect to:

1. Request Access to Schomburg Moving Images and Recorded Sound

Added author

1. Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. Moving Image and Recorded Sound Division.

Research call number

1. Sc MIRS Shearer 1994-54