WUSTL Film and Media Archive

Title Work

Title No: 282

Title: Interview with Dorothy Height

Medium: Audio; Moving Image

Original Medium: Film; Video

Date: 25 Feb 1992 (Created)

Original Summary:

Interview with Dorothy I. Height for The Great Depression. Discussion centers onNew York City during the Great Depression and includes race relations, employment discrimination,  the 1935 Harlem riot, Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia, the NAACP, lynching President  Franklin Roosevelt's fireside chats, Eleanor Roosevelt, New Deal programs such as the Works Project Administration and National RA.

Countries of Origin: U.S.A.

Duration: 1 hr 9 min 2 sec

Genres: Interview

Subjects: Discrimination in employment; Harlem (New York, N.Y.); Riots--New York (State)--New York; New Deal, 1933-1939; Lynching

Name As Subjects: Roosevelt, Franklin D.; United States. Works Progress Administration; Height, Dorothy I.; National Association for the Advancement of Colored People; Roosevelt, Eleanor; United States. National Recovery Administration; La Guardia, Fiorello H. (Fiorello Henry)

Credits:

	Role	Name
	Production Company	Blackside, Inc.
	Interviewee	Height, Dorothy I.

Notes:

Subject : Dorothy Height
Used in Episode Number : 313; 317

Reference Materials ^x2

	Video
	Transcript

Items ^x7

	Item	Description
	282-1	Audio Tape : 1/4" Audio Tape
	282-2	Audio Tape : Audio Cassette
	282-3	Video Tape : U-matic
	282-6	Digital :
	282-7	Safety Film : Original negative
	282-8	Video Tape : BetacamSP
	282-9	Digital : Video/dvcpro 50

Contained By ^x1

	Title No	Title
	7596	The Great Depression [interviews]

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	Type	Title No	Title
		34	New Deal/New York
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