The HistoryMakers Video Oral History with Shelby Steele

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The HistoryMakers Video Oral History with Shelby Steele

3/30/2002

https://www.thehistorymakers.org/biography/A2002.046

English professor Shelby Steele (1946 - ) is a political commentator, and winner of the National Book Award for, "The Content of Our Character." Steele worked at San Jose State University as a professor from 1974 to 1991, and earned an Emmy Award in 1990 for his work on, "Seven Days in Bensonhurst," a PBS Frontline documentary examining the racially motivated killing of Yusef Hawkins in Brooklyn, New York. Steele was interviewed by The HistoryMakers on 3/30/2002, in Monterrey, California. This collection is comprised of the video footage of the interview.

Total Sessions: 1; Total Tapes: 6; Total Run Time: 03h 02m 49s

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Political commentator and essayist Shelby Steele was born on January 1, 1946, in Chicago, Illinois. His father, Shelby, Sr., a black truck driver, met his mother, Ruth, a white social worker, while working for the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE). Steele considers his mixed heritage an amazing gift, which served to demystify race for him. Because both of Steele's parents were active in the Civil Rights Movement, he grudgingly accompanied his father to numerous marches and rallies as a child.St...