The HistoryMakers Video Oral History with Samuel Floyd

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The HistoryMakers Video Oral History with Samuel Floyd

1/22/2003

https://www.thehistorymakers.org/biography/A2003.014

Academic administrator and music museum director Samuel Floyd (1937 - 2016 ) was Director Emeritus and consultant to the Center for Black Music at Columbia College in Chicago, Illinois. Floyd was interviewed by The HistoryMakers on 1/22/2003, in Chicago, Illinois. This collection is comprised of the video footage of the interview.

Total Sessions: 1; Total Tapes: 6; Total Run Time: 03h 03m 23s

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Floyd, Samuel A.

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Accomplished musical educator Samuel A. Floyd, Jr., was born in Tallahassee, Florida, on February 1, 1937. Floyd received his B.S. degree from Florida A&M University in 1957 before attending Southern Illinois University at Carbondale, where he received his M.M.E. degree in 1965, and his Ph.D. in 1969.From 1957 to 1962, Floyd worked as band director for Smith-Brown High School in Arcadia, Florida; he later moved on to his alma mater, Florida A&M University, where he worked as a music inst...