Found 59 collections related to Interviews

The Ross Thalheimer Papers consist of papers relating to Thalheimer's activities as a civil rights supporter from the 1940's to the 1970's. Files relate primarily to the funding and presentation of the Thalheimer Award to the National Urban League, including the prize winning essays written by students, and for the Thalheimer Awards he funded for the NAACP including information about the recipients and associated programs, 1942-1976. Collection also contains letters from Kenneth B. Clark and Lester B. Granger, typescripts of interviews given by Thalheimer, copies of an advertisement placed in The New York Times in 1964 by the Psychologists' Committee on Interracial Relations concerning violence and race relations, and telegrams to Thalheimer from Martin Luther King, Jr. inviting him to join King on what would become known as the Selma to Montgomery March on March 9 and 21, 1965. There are also an address Thalheimer delivered in 1940 called "The Need for Equal Educational Opportunity in a Democracy;" an article he wrote entitled "What Can the Church Do About Juvenile Delinquency," 1954; biographical information about Thalheimer prepared by his widow; and expressions of sympathy upon his death. less

Author. Collection comprises Ashe's work in developing VIEWFINDERS, a historiographic photoessay project for publication. The manuscript and research materials are about African-American women photographers in America from 1839 to 1985. While numerous professionals are cited, extensive interview materials are available on the Camera Girls (WACs), Hazel Shumate, Gladys Allen, Eslanda Goode Robeson, Mary Flenoy, Phillda Ragland-Njau, Wilhelmina Roberts, Elsie Forrest Harelson, Vera Jackson, Louise Martin, Louise Jefferson, Mary Warren, Colis Davis, Winifred Hall, and Elizabeth Williams. Transcribed interviews of these photographers are supplemented with interview tapes for Martin, Allen, Roberts, Robeson, Flenoy, and Williams through dialogue either with the individual or an acquaintance. Also included are various pre-publication manuscript and photoprint galleys and proofs, correspondence, and miscellanea. less

This holograph manuscript, written in Italian, is the transcript of an interview of Italian philosopher Benedetto Croce. In it he describes leaving his home in Sorrento, Italy in 1943, to avoid being seized by the Germans as a hostage. He discusses the effect of Fascism on Italy and the history of his own struggle against it; the true meaning of liberalism, and its possible future after World War II; and other matters. A typed English translation of the interview by Croce's daughter Elena is included less

African-American arts aficionado Robert LaPrince was known primarily as the founder and president of the National Council for Culture and Art (NCCA), a non-profit, charitable, educational public service and artist support organization. NCCA's two touchstone programs, the Monarch Awards and Opening Night, honored and featured a variety of established upcoming people of color in the performing arts. Prior to founding NCCA, LaPrince obtained his Ph.D. from the University of Pittsburgh (1976) in sociology, and worked for the National Council of Negro Women. As an educator, he worked as an adjunct professor at Hunter College, Medgar Evers College, York College and the University of Pittsburgh in the 1970s and 1980s. LaPrince was also a social worker and teacher for the New York City Board of Education in the 1980s. The Robert LaPrince/National Council on Culture and Art (NCCA) Records are divided into two series, Personal and Professional. The bulk of the collection consists of the records of the NCCA and includes board agendas, minutes, reports and correspondence; planning files for the Monarch Awards and Opening Night programs, correspondence, contracts, financial records, fliers, grant proposals, artist information files, and news clippings. less

Collection consists of cassette tape recordings of actors and performers collected by Lewis Archibald, a jounalist who wrote for the magazine 'Downtown.' Personalities interviewed include: Ingrid Bergman, Judy Davis, Mel Gibson, Glenda Jackson, Vanessa Redgrave, Hume Cronyn & Jessica Tandy, Maude Adams, Kevin Bacon, Beau Bridges, James Bridges, Jeff Bridges, Sally Field, Matthew Broderick, Michael Caine, Tom Hanks, Jack Lemmon, Jack Nicholson, Peter O'Toole, Mandy Patinkin, Robert Preston, Gilda Radner, Robert Redford, and John Voight, among many others. less

The Abyssinian Baptist Church Oral History Project consists of transcripts of interviews with ten African-American women -- all Abyssinian members -- about their recollections of Abyssinian Baptist Church as well as their Southern roots, their spiritual experiences and their political and Christian education. All of the women interviewed were more than seventy years old, and one was over ninety, at the time the interviews were conducted in 1992. The interviewees are: Helen Brown, Robbie Clarke, Susan Craig, Gwendolyn Jones, Esther McCall, Estelle Noble, Fannie Pennington, Olivia Pearl Stokes, Amy Terry, Grace Jones and Laura B. Thomas. Their remembrances date to the late 1920's, but the primary time period under discussion is from 1940 to1970. Located in Harlem, Abyssinian was the first black Baptist church established in New York State (1808) and the fifth in the United States. The interviewer was Martia G. Goodson, an assistant professor at Baruch College at the time of the project. less

Writer, New York State senator (1951-1965), former president of the National Committee Against Discrimination in Housing. Collection comprises research material for Metcalf's two books, BLACK PROFILES (13 biographies of prominent African Americans living and deceased), and UP FROM WITHIN: TODAY'S BLACK LEADERS (a biographical sequence of emerging black personalities and their contributions to the "black revolution" in America). Material consists of clippings, correspondence, typescripts, transcribed interviews, notes and miscellaneous printed material, and one taped interview with Metcalf on a variety of topics including urban rehabilitation. Material in collection is about Martin Luther King, Jr., Malcolm X, Roy Wilkins, Shirley Chisolm, W.E.B. Du Bois, Rosa Parks, Thurgood Marshall, Medgar Evers, Jackie Robinson, Eldridge Cleaver, Whitney Young, Jr., Harriet Tubman, Edward Brooke, Julian Bond, James H. Meredith, Andrew Brimmer, and others. less

Al Pacino, stage and film actor, was born in New York, N.Y., April 25, 1940. Since the release of the first GODFATHER film in 1972, which made him famous, Al Pacino has played lead roles in films (DOG DAY AFTERNOON, SERPICO, SCARFACE) and on stage (RICHARD III, AMERICAN BUFFALO, THE BASIC TRAINING OF PAVLO HUMMEL). This undated interview with Al Pacino, conducted by Leonard Probst, was apparently recorded in the fall of 1975, prior to the release of DOG DAY AFTERNOON. Al Pacino discusses his early decision to become an actor, the difficulties fame has brought to his daily life, the differences between stage and film performance, his onstage work in RICHARD III, and his work in the first two GODFATHER films. Mr. Pacino is briefly joined by Martin Bregman, producer of SERPICO and DOG DAY AFTERNOON. The transcript is riddled with typos, misspellings and garbled phrases, and is difficult to read in places due to cross-outs and type-overs. less

Judith Crist, film critic. Photocopy of a typescript of Crist's interview with the actor Burt Lancaster contains handwritten revisions. The interview was conducted in Tarrytown, NY in October, 1975 before a live audience as part of a Crist Film Weekend. less

The Arthur Ashe papers document the wide range of Ashe's political, athletic, business, and philanthropic activities. Although they contain some significant material from the 1960s and 1970s, the papers are concentrated more heavily on Ashe's activities following his retirement from competitive tennis in 1980. less

Fran Lee (née Frances Lederman, 1910-2010) was an actress, model, consumer advocate, and television personality who appeared on early television programs as "Mrs. Fix-It." The collection dates from 1925 to 1994 and contains correspondence, professional files, video tapes, and films. less

James Glanz is a journalist for The New York Times and a physicist who received his Ph.D. in astrophysical sciences from Princeton University. The James Glanz World Trade Center research files contain drafts, notebooks, and graphics produced in the creation of his book City in the Sky as well as research materials collected during the book's conception. less

Testing the Limits was a video collective formed in New York in 1987 to document AIDS activism. The collective produced a short work, Testing the Limits : NYC, in 1987 and a feature-length documentary Voices from the Front in 1991. The collective's final production was a four-part documentary The Question of Equality which chronicled the gay and lesbian struggle for civil rights. The Testing the Limits Records consist of both organizational records and video footage shot by the collective. less

Edward A. Allworth is professor emeritus of Turco-Soviet Studies in the Middle Eastern and Asian Languages and Cultures Department of Columbia University. He began his career at Columbia in 1961, dedicating his writings and teaching to the study of ethnic minority populations in Soviet Central Asia. Professor Allworth's papers include research documents focusing on Crimean Tatars, Uzbeks, Tajiks and Bukharan Jews, and the Soviet war in Afghanistan. Materials consist of correspondence, manuscripts, research files and statistical analysis, photographs, oral history recordings and biographical scrapbooks, printed matter and a small amount of personal miscellany. less

The ACT UP Oral History Project Videotapes are a collection of interviews with surviving members of the AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power. The project was coordinated by filmmaker Jim Hubbard and novelist Sarah Schulman, with camera work by James Wentzy (in New York) and S. Leo Chiang (on the West Coast.) less

Dennis McGovern and Deborah Grace Winer were the authors of Sing Out, Louise!: 150 Stars of the Musical Theatre Remember 50 Years on Broadway, published in 1993. The Sing Out, Louise! interview transcripts date from 1990 to 1992 and consist of edited, typed transcripts of interviews with Broadway actors conducted or compiled by McGovern and Winer during the course of researching the book. Transcripts have the authors' notes and annotations. less

Ken Auletta (b. 1942) is a journalist and author known for his coverage of political, governmental and economic matters, often focused on New York; since the early 1990s he has written mainly about the media and communications industries. The Ken Auletta papers contain correspondence, typescripts, galleys, research materials, sound recordings and a video recording representing his writings, including feature articles for The New Yorker, his Daily News column, and several books. Correspondence (1975-1993) contains letters from prominent figures in politics, business and the media reacting to Auletta's work. Writings are documented by typescripts and galleys with revisions by Auletta and/or Jacob Epstein, his editor at Random House, and research materials, including interview transcripts and subject files containing clippings, press releases and some correspondence. Also present are notebooks (1983-1993) used for his Daily News column and other work; sound recordings (mainly interviews and speeches recorded as research material for his books and articles); and a video (1995) recording an event at which Auletta was the speaker. less

John Angelo (1922 - ) is a former dancer, choreographer, actor, and set and costume designer who appeared in many Hollywood musicals. David Bond (born Alfred Allegro, 1914-1989) was an actor and theatrical producer. The John Angelo and David Bond papers, dating from 1931 to 2012, document the careers of the performers through photographs, scrapbooks, interviews, programs, clippings, flyers, letters, awards, video interviews, and posters. less

The Black Consciousness Movement emerged as a political trend in South Africa in the late 1960s, in the decade after the banning of the African National Congress and the Pan Africanist Congress by the South African regime. The collection documents a primarily youth-based radical critique of the apartheid system, of the ANC's Freedom Charter and its moderate leadership in negotiating a transition to white rule in South Africa. The South Africa Black Consciousness Movement Collection consists primarily of interviews, speeches, organizational materials and printed matter documenting the politics and activities of Black Consciousness organizations in and outside of South Africa from 1983 to 1991. It comprises interviews and speeches by BCM leaders Itumeleng J. Mosala, Ishmael Mkhabela and Lybon Mabasa; interviews with black South African exiles, and anti-apartheid activists within South Africa; leaflets, declarations and factsheets of the Azanian People's Organization and the Black Consciousness Movement of Azania (BCM (A)); miscellaneous files on the New Unity Movement, the Pan Africanist Congress and other non BCM organizations; and subject files on churches, trade-unions, white organizations inside South Africa, and the State of Emergency declared by the South African government in 1985. An organization file for Indaba, a Durban-based experiment in power-sharing, and a collection of essays entitled "War Stories" by an independent American journalist, Michael Slate, are also included. less

Correspondence and notes regarding interviews conducted by author and academic John D'Emilio for his book Sexual Politics, Sexual Communities: The Making of a Homosexual Minority in the United States, 1940-1970. Includes letters from Lisa Ben and Jim (John) Gruber. less

Barbara Arnest (1923-2017) was a writer and the editor of The Colorado College Magazine, the college's alumni magazine. Arnest, a long time Colorado Springs resident, worked on an unfinished biography of modern dance pioneer Hanya Holm, who taught at the Colorado College Summer Dance Festival for over forty years. The Barbara Arnest collection of Hanya Holm material dates from 1965 to 1986 and is primarily comprised of Arnest's notes (some of which she took while observing Holm's classes), interview recordings and transcripts, bibliographic research, and a few incomplete drafts. Approximately a dozen programs for Colorado College dance performances and the Colorado Opera Festival are present. The class notes and sound recordings document the content of Holm's classes and her style of teaching. A detailed listing of items is available as an additional resource. less

Janet Mansfield Soares is a dancer, choreographer, teacher, and author. The Janet Mansfield Soares papers document her professional life, with a focus on her choreography and research. Materials consist of choreographic notes, teaching materials, programs, photographs, and research materials, with interviews for Soares' book on Louis Horst - Louis Horst: Musician in a Dancer's World. less

Phyllis Dain is a Professor Emerita of Library Service at Columbia University. The Phyllis Dain papers consist of documents relating to her work as a library educator and historian, including the campaign to save the Columbia University Library School, her work on two histories of the New York Public Library, her professional papers, and speeches and writings. less

Jan Peerce (1904-1984) was an American tenor whose career as an opera star and concert performer extended more than fifty years. The Jan Peerce Papers are a record of his life and career, documented through correspondence, scripts, writings, programs, clippings, scores and other performance materials. less

John Butler (1918-1993) was a dancer and choreographer who combined both classical and modern dance styles in his work. After a brief period leading his own dance company, Butler became a successful freelance choreographer on television and for dance companies around the world. The John Butler Papers consist of correspondence, programs, clippings, photographs, scrapbooks and other professional records. less

John Dougherty was a dancer, dance historian and dance critic who spent most of his life affiliated with Ruth St. Denis and the Denishawn School. He was a student at Denishawn in the 1920s and later, served as secretary and literary adviser to Ruth St. Denis. He also taught dance and wrote for Dance News magazine. The John Dougherty Collection contains Dougherty’s own materials, mostly from 1960-1975, as well as correspondence, documents and original writings of Ruth St. Denis dating from the final period of her professional career, 1960-1968. less